Cellino & Barnes
Reviews and Complaints

They held 48k of a friends for three years and no interest was payed, they now hold 27k for liens, which I know, there are no liens. and they deducted $500. for a lean research co. Does anyone know how long a lien search takes? We have absolutely no liens, medical, mechanical, , , , none! Since C&B does not pay interest in the money they hold, someone is making some serious $ on the money they hold for years... Well I looked at the web site below and it told me nothing new. Still waiting for the $27, 000. to show up. I bet they make millions /yr in interest not given to clients. The information they proivide below doesnt help! Googled it and hear is the reply: 1. Doesn't take two years to verify a Medicare or Medicaid lien. Ask to see a response from Medicare/Medicaid, if they don't have it then ask to see the lien request sent by the lawyer, keep a copy for yourself, if he doesn't give you these documents then you need to report him to grievance committee or hire a lawyer to get your funds released. 2. That's a pretty long time. Ask your attorney for a complete accounting of the settlement funds. So they are just stalling to collect the bank interest because they dont pay out interest, they keep it!

we hired Cellino & barnes, our attorney was David J Koppelman .we hired them for a car accident clam, David J Koppelman had my wife sign a contract that was for a personal injury, and would not take care of the lose of our vehicle . I told my wife to contact him about it after I saw it, he said it were quitting .and that we should take them to small claims court. she called him and he confirmed they had quit .doctors started sening bills because we no longer had an attorney .we tried to hire another would still be taken care of. he had a Jackie Hernandez call and say they attorney .they contacted David J Koppelman, and he told them there was no money in the case, so they did not take it. we ended up doing the case ourselves. they found out we were going to get a settlement, said even though he did not do the case he was going to still charge us . we said that Jackie Hernandez from there office had called and quit on march 28 2017.he told us she was not a attorney and she did not have the authority to quit and he never sent anything in writing. but he had told us he quit before the case settled when he called us, and he said prove it, it would be his word against ours, we told him he did not do what we hired him to do and we had to do the case ourselves .he said he could not help it if my wife was to stupid to read what she was signing. insurance company said they had not talked to david J koppelman till after we settled the case. that he notified them that he had quit in writing after the case settled, that he quit so he could get a lien on it. some one else from his office got in contact with us who made it seam like he was david J koppelmans attorney said because they did not do the case they would take 500 dollars off what they were trying to get, sent a contract saying all kinds off extra fees it also said that the person we talk to was a paralegal, and he signed where david J koppelman was suppose to sign, he did not want to sign that he was getting the money with out saying we still owed cellino & barnes . we wanted it to say money was going to cellino & barnes 4500.00 and no more, and he was not going to just keep the money and we get a bill from the law firm.but he refused. sounds like this is illegal

I was in car accident two years ago. The process was started and still no finished. I found Celino and Barnes law company in order to represent me in court. This company had me. They promised me trial within a year and I took a loan. After I did it they delayed my case.