Stephen R. Bellis leads our trial practice group. He concentrates on personal injury cases for clients injured in automobile accidents, slip and falls, workers' compensation, and medical malpractice.

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Steve represents clients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries, back and neck disc herniations, or muscle strains, as well as those who have been killed in incidents. He has tried cases before juries throughout the state and has successfully argued appeals in both the Appellate and Supreme Courts. Steve has secured millions of dollars in compensation for his clients.

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Attorney Bellis also handles commercial litigation and real estate closings for businesses, banks and borrowers. He represented local and state and national developers as well as homeowners in zoning matters in the City of Shelton. Steve has successfully filed several affordable housing applications in Stratford. He currently serves as counsel to the Shelton Builders Association, Inc.

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Steve represents successful owners and their companies primarily in real-estate development. He obtains planning and zoning approvals for commercial shopping centers, subdivisions, planned development districts, apartments, assisted living facilities, condominiums and affordable housing projects. Steve represents the business in obtaining commercial loans including: derivatives, credit swaps, construction and permanent financing. He also litigates business disputes and tax appeals.  

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Steve has served as an attorney delegate to the Open World program where he traveled to Russia as part of the Russian American Rules of Law Consortium. He lectured on commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

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Attorney Bellis is certified as an arbitrator by the ADR for commercial disputes. He is also selected as a mediator or arbitrator on personal injury cases.

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Attorney Bellis served as a Board of Director for the New Haven County Bar Association. He previously was a New Haven delegate to the Connecticut Bar Association. He is a member of the New Haven Lawyer Referral Service, Connecticut and American Bar Associations, the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice. He is active on the Shelton Republican Town Committee and served as Chairman of the Redistricting Committee and Charter Revision Commission. Steve is Counsel for the Shelton Farmers Market - Nonprofit CT Grown produce and Business Law Instructor for the City of New Haven Small Business Academy. Attorney Bellis serves on the Board of Directors for the Shelton Library.

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Attorney Bellis obtained his undergraduate degree from Boston University in 1981. He graduated from Catholic University Law School in Washington, D.C. in 1984 and was selected to the Law Review and was commencement speaker. He is admitted and qualified before the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States District Court of Connecticut and Connecticut State Court.