Timothy Eric Bellew

This man is a con artist. He wants your money but he refuses to communicate or even file motions for you. His business card is fake. The address listed on it belongs to a bail bonds company that has no knowledge of him and they have been at that location for nearly two years. The address listed in th...e Ohio Supreme Court Attorneys registry is also fictitious. The phone number is valid...but it isn't an office phone, it is a cell phone that nearly always has a full voice mail and he declines answering. He states that he is charging you a flat fee, but then tries to change it to an hourly fee afterwards. Not very intelligent though as I recorded him and he sent emails indicating a flat fee. Because of this when you put a down payment on them it is not a retainer but an advanced payment. Such should actually be placed in a separate account such as an eskrow account until completion of service. He also demands that you send monies to his personal Pay Pal account and refuses USPS money orders. This is not a valid practice, if he does use something like Pay Pal it should be designated as a business account. He made all kinds of false promises in which there was no delivery. He virtually made no pretrial motions whatsoever other than a Discovery and Bill of Particulars. He refused to schedule a pretrial conference for a probable cause hearing, did not subpoena any witnesses on my behalf, refused to impeach any of the prosecutions witnesses who had prior crimes involving dishonesty on their records, and refused to look into procedural errors or blatant constitutional violations, he refused to allow me to see my Discovery and it was for misdemeanors. I asked him tto file several motions for suppression, to quash, to subpoena witnesses, to challenge evidence. Nothing, this man is lazy...and I seriously doubt he was in the JAG corps for 25 years as he made claim to me. I recorded this mans initial consultation and what few calls he did make he outright refused to answer legal questions, but instead demanded you send money to him or he would drop you as a client. Please spread the word. If anyone is interested I have documentation of everything.

I hired Tim for a felony criminal case in Summit County. He filed his discovery and documents immediately, talked to the prosecutor before the scheduled pretrial. I was nervous because of the seriousness of the charges. Well, he did great. Better than I though. Affordable, caring and willing to ...go out of his way to meet and help.

We hired Mr. Bellew to represent my fiancé in a criminal case, which we believed to be open and shut based on the fact that the officer who wrote the complaint, falsified his in the police report. When I first spoke with Mr. Bellew, he told us he was interested in taking on my fiancé's case but ...that he would need to be paid first. We told him that we would bring him a money order for the payment, and he requested that we bring him cash. When we met him at the court house he was extremely unprepared for our meeting. Not only did he not bring any type of contract for us to sign, he also "conveniently" forgot to bring a receipt for the payment we gave him. Instead he scribbled on the back of a business card that he received money from my fiancé. At the meeting we provided him with all of the documentation we had regarding my fiancé's case, including the falsified police report, AND A MOTION TO DISMISS that was filed by the city prosecutor yet never entered into the docket. The following Monday my fiancé had a status call hearing with the court. We informed Mr. Bellew of this date and he said he would be there. Not only did he show up late for the hearing, when he got there he didn't bring up any of the things we talked about him bringing up while he was in the courtroom. During the following 3 weeks we tried on several different occasions to contact Mr. Bellew via telephone by calling both his "office" number and his "personal cell phone" number (which was his one day, but the following day a woman answered saying we had the wrong number.) The only contact we did receive from his was via email. We asked several times in emails for him to file various motions and he would say he would but then actually didn't file anything. We asked several times to come to his office to sit down to go over things before the court trial. But he wouldn't set up a time. He never bothered to subpoena witnesses or even ask questions about the case. He did however email us telling us he wanted another payment. He wanted us to pay him via PayPal. The day we received the request to pay via paypal we tried to call him 11 times. We left messages saying we didn't feel comfortable paying via PayPal, and that we would be willing to meet him in person with the payment and to go over paperwork that he claimed to have received from the city, but that we still have yet to see. At one point he told us he would meet us in our town AFTER we paid him via PayPal. Why not just let us bring him the money? He doesn't seem to have an actual office, as the address he uses is a PO BOX. He doesn't return phone calls or bother to let anyone know what is going on with their case. But he will take your money in a second! And he always wants more regardless of the fact that he isn't actually doing any work on the case in question.

I had one attorney for a divorce who did nothing, and I mean nothing. Did not file an answer to the divorce complaint, did not file any motions - I mean did nothing. Tim took over the case, immediately filed an answer to the divorce complaint, motions for me to force my ex to register the car so I ...could drive, good visitation order. The outcome of the divorce was great, I got everything I wanted. Great job!

I contacted Attorney Bellew for representation about a criminal matter near Cleveland. The prosecutor would not back down, and refused to even make a decent offer to settle the case. Attorney Bellew did not back down either. We went to a jury trial, and won. It was fantastic. He filed a motion t...o dismiss the case because they took too long to bring it to trial, but the Judge ignored it. I was scared that the deck was stacked against us. But the truth won.