Ellis & Winters is pleased to announce that Don Cowan has received the Judge John J. Parker Award, considered the highest award bestowed by the North Carolina Bar Association. Mr. Cowan was presented with the award at the 2014 NCBA Annual Meeting in Wilmington on June 21, 2014. Having long served […]
Matthew W. Sawchak Dixie T. Wells Ellis & Winters partners Matt Sawchak and Dixie Wells recently presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys (NCADA). The event was held June 12th through 14th in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Participants in the meeting included approximately 150 North Carolina […]
Matthew W. Sawchak Ellis & Winters partner Matt Sawchak was recently interviewed by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly as an expert on civil procedure. The article, “Court of Appeals Takes Up Issue of Collateral Estoppel,” addresses a new decision in which the North Carolina Court of Appeals chose a test to govern one element of issue preclusion (which […]
Andrew S. Chamberlin On June 1, 2012, a large fire destroyed a manufacturing plant in Morelia, Mexico. Damages from the fire were estimated to be in the range of 75 million U.S. dollars. Andrew Chamberlin of Ellis & Winters LLP represented a major lighting manufacturer during the investigation of the fire and throughout the ensuring product liability litigation. On May […]