Steven Bell

Steven Bell is a criminal defense attorney and partner at the law firm Meltzer & Bell, P.A.  With extensive knowledge of the Florida court system, Bell represents clients with a range of criminal charges, including DUI, drug offenses, and violent crimes.

After graduating magna cum laude from Nova Southeastern University Bell became licensed to practice law in the state of Florida in 2004. Immediately, he joined the Broward County Public Defender's Office in the Juvenile Division as an Assistant Public Defender. In just three short years Bell was placed in the Felony Division in 2007.

At age 26, Bell was named Managing Supervisor of the entire Juvenile Division, becoming one of the youngest attorneys to hold this position. As Managing Supervisor of the Juvenile Division, he defended minors facing first DUI, drug offense, and disorderly conduct charges.

In 2007 Bell entered private practice and joined the firm Ruiz, Bell, Clayman, LLC, as partner. With Ruiz, Bell, Clayman, LLC he handled many felony and DUI charge cases. Later, he joined Ted L. Hollander & Associates (also known as Ticket Clinic). At the Ticket Clinic he was Lead Trial Counsel for Palm Beach and surrounding areas. In this capacity, he defended clients from hundreds of traffic violation allegations, pursuing many of them to jury trials. 

In 2013, he teamed up with Lawrence Meltzer to form his own practice, Meltzer & Bell, P.A., where he aggressively defends those facing a range of criminal charges, from federal offenses to traffic violations, in the Palm Beach County area of Florida. 

Steven has worked with independent experts on subjects ranging from forensic toxicology to traffic accident reconstruction when handing DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide cases. Introducing this type of evidence can be critical to building the strongest defense possible in these cases.

Steven has been featured on Cop Talk Radio, Seaview Radio, Sirus XM Radio, News Channel 25, The Sun-Sentinel, New York Daily News and The Palm Beach Post in regards to criminal law. He was also selected as a rising star by SuperLawyers for 2012, 2013 and 2014 and a Super Lawyer in 2015. Martindale-Hubbell also rated Steven AV Preeminent in 2015. 

Additionally, Steven was selected and invited to join the membership of the National Advocacy for DUI Defense in 2013 and was awarded for his outstanding DUI defense work as one of the top 100 DUI Lawyers in his geographic region for the year 2015.

Steven Bell welcomes the opportunity to discuss your case. He is available 24/7 at (561) 283-3259  or toll free at  (855) 548-4119.