Chip Bell

Charles L. “Chip” Bell, Jr., lives in the City of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Linda, is the father of two daughters, Jennifer and Jessica, the grandfather of Danny, Charlotte, and Parker, and is a practicing attorney specializing in personal injury litigation, with his main office in Arnold, Pennsylvania. Born on February 23, 1950, in Harrison Township, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Tarentum High School in 1968, attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, from 1968 to 1972, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude. He served in the United States Army from 1972 to 1974, attended Duquesne University School of Law from 1975 to 1979, and graduated Cum Laude. He practiced law as a personal injury trial attorney with the law firm of Rosenberg, Sewak, Pizzi and Bell from 1979 to 2002, and thereafter as a sole practitioner up to and including the present date. He has also been an adjunct professor at Penn State – New Kensington Campus. He has been a member of the American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (formerly the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association) and has served on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association from 1988 to 1990. He is also a member of the Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and served on the Board of Governors in 1988. He is a founder and past president of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Southwestern Pennsylvania, has been a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. From 2002 – 2004 he was the Director of the Weed and Seed Redevelopment Project for the Cities of Arnold and New Kensington. He is the author of, currently, twenty novels in The Jake Sullivan Series and, additionally, he is the coauthor of a feature film script, "Cuba Libre", and a television pilot script, "A1A", both based upon The Jake Sullivan Series. He also has co-written, with Donny Brewer, the Trop Rock Music Association Entertainer of the Year for 2017, 2018, and 2019, “Trouble in Paradise: The Ballad of Jake Sullivan”, collaborated with singer/songwriter Eric Stone on “Topical Crimes in Tropical Climes”, which went to No. 1 on Radio A1A’s Trop 40 Countdown, and collaborated with John McDonald on his singles “La Diablesse" and "Montserrat Is Calling". Recently, he has collaborated with Mastic Trail Brewery, “Pittsburgh’s Caribbean Brewpub,” in creating Jake Sullivan’s Caribbean Lager, a best-selling Mexican-style summer beer that was entered in the 2021 Great American Beer Festival. He has consistently given sets of books to be auctioned or sold to raise money for charitable causes such as Music On The Bay’s Shriner’s Hospitals For Children and Don Middlebrook’s Panama City Hurricane Relief Efforts, as well as Parrot Head Clubs across the country.