Steven J. Bell
A former occupational safety consultant who worked on wind tunnels for NASA and as a semiconductor safety engineer before law school. His published practice is construction accidents, not rideshare — he says he followed his father into it and has stayed there. Admitted the same day as Omar Habbas.
The bar record
We read Steven J. Bell in the State Bar of California’s licensee search. California publishes more history than most registers: a bar number, a dated status timeline, and administrative as well as disciplinary actions.
California is the one register that tells you it removes its own history. Above the status table, every record carries this: some administrative suspensions are subject to automatic removal from the attorney profile page pursuant to the State Bar’s policy on removal of administrative actions ... administrative suspensions that meet the criteria in that policy would not be displayed below.
Administrative suspensions are not discipline — they follow from things like unpaid fees or missed continuing education. But the sentence still means what it says. A timeline showing nothing is a timeline showing nothing that the State Bar currently displays, and we are not going to write “never suspended” when the register reserves the right to have taken an entry down. No other register on this site says this about itself.
And it does not check what the lawyer tells it. Where a record carries practice areas, the State Bar prints a warning next to them: it does not verify the accuracy of this content and makes no warranties regarding experience or competence in practice areas. Eleven of the twelve lawyers on our San Francisco page left that block empty altogether, so for most of them the register holds a name, a number, an address and a status — and nothing about what they actually do.
What the record shows
His biography describes a practice concentrated on construction accidents, drawing on his prior work in occupational safety and health, and says he has continued with that focus to today. Rideshare does not appear in it. The rideshare page is the firm’s and names no individual lawyer.Verified
Two firms in this batch — Jones Clifford and Altair Law — both state that they represent the victims in the first wrongful death case against Lyft in California. They may well have been co-counsel; both pages are written as though the claim is exclusively theirs. We report that both say it and have checked neither.Verified
He was admitted 11 December 1986, the same day as Omar Habbas.Verified
His prior career is unusual for this site: he says he had safety responsibility for the construction of a number of wind tunnels for NASA before becoming a lawyer.Verified
What the firm says
He says he graduated from Santa Clara School of Law in 1986, passed the California bar that year, and has spent nearly 30 years litigating cases in many counties throughout California.Reported
He says he holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, is recognised as a Super Lawyer, and received the “Golden Advocate” award in 2013 for work on a construction accident case in San Bernardino.Reported
He says he is a member of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, Consumer Attorneys of California and the American Association for Justice.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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