Bellas & Wachowski

Peter Wachowski is very knowledgeable about many areas of law including personal injury and accidents. He is fluent in Polish and caring enough to offer free consultations. I highly recommend reaching out to Peter for legal advice, he along with his staff are very nice and easy to talk to.

Incredibly Rude. called to ask one simple questions and Wachowski was short, rude, and demeaning. Entire call lasted less than 2 minutes but I had heard enough. Got my question answered but left with a sour taste in my mouth, esp after he hung up the phone as soon as I said thank you.

***STAY AWAY***
I hired Bellas as our corporate representation last year in September to assist us with all corporate needs. They make you sign a yearly contract which isn’t too bad – $ 250 legal fees that included the minutes, IRS filings, certificates, SOS filings, IL Tax filings, and unlimited phone calls with questions. Of course, we had to pay for our own filing fees separately. Totally fair.
First issue: Melissa, Bellas’ paralegal, messed up the IL Tax ID filing. I had to drive all the way to the Niles IL State office to have the problem rectified because when I called Melissa to tell her that it was messed up, she gave me attitude over the phone and basically said it wasn’t her problem. That she had already done her share of work.
Second issue: When Melissa filed for our Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of Illinois, she forgot to include the business owner as the the owner. The only thing that showed up on the SOS website was the law firm as the agent. This caused all sorts of problems with companies and banks we were ready to do business with. For one of the companies we had to work with, they demanded that the biz owner appeared on the website but when I asked Bellas or Melissa, they both said that it should work the way it was and basically shrugged it off. For this, the company asked Bellas for a signed letter stating that Bellas had no ownership or authority over the company. Bellas called me swearing over the phone saying he «felt like a criminal» because they asked to see his ID. I must have spoken to them about this particular issue about 5 times and never did they offer to amend it with SOS.
Third issue: because of the first two issues, I decided that we no longer wanted to do business with Bellas and went to pick up our original documents (which they hold in their office for all of their business clients) since it was the end of our contract. Upon arrival, I was told by the horrible and disrespectful Melissa that it was fine. A few moments later, she comes back out and says «I just called George and he said that you have to pay your $ 250 fee in order to get these back». I said «Why? We’re not signing up for another year with you. Just give me my documents.» She said she couldn’t do that and to wait for Bellas since he wasn’t in and didn’t have a clue as to when he would be in. I ended up calling the police and when they arrived they forced the law firm to issue us what is legally ours.
Yes, that all really happened.