Ariel A. Tello - Seal Beach, CA

“ZERO STARS” WORST ATTORNEY EVER! Ariel Tello cost me over $400K in the final judgement with my ex! Incompetent beyond compare! Failed to respond to court’s repeated demands for docs. Failed to present my actual income to the judge during discovery resulting in numerous judgments: spousal support, child support, (I have full custody of my child), attorneys fees and sanctions. His continued unresponsiveness to the court’s repeated demand for documents resulted in additional sanctions and financial judgements. He failed to attend an important hearing that rendered me acrimonious, uncooperative, and disrespectful of the court. Over the course of 2 years, he failed to inform me of numerous punitive judgements issued against me. He denied receiving a trust account statement from opposing counsel showing well over $100K in court ordered payments to my ex. The death blow of his ongoing legal malpractice was the court issuing an evidence sanction preventing my new attorney, (yes, I fired him), from arguing virtually any significant issue of my family law case. Thanks to Ariel Tello, I was forced into a judgement that cost me nearly $1M!!! This should be warning enough. With any luck the CA State Bar will take action to prevent others from suffering my same fate. I trusted Mr. Tello to represent my best interests, he failed miserably and kept it from me thinking I would never find out? No way to run a “Professional Law Corporation “He should never be allowed to step foot in a courtroom …EVER! Yes, I am filing a lawsuit against Mr. Tello. BTW, ALL CA attorneys are required by law to carry malpractice insurance. To date and upon written notice, Mr. Tello has failed to demonstrate he has any insurance coverage.