Ellis & Winters LLP is again ranked as a leading firm in North Carolina in the 2016 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. The firm has been given high ratings in each of its primary areas of practice: antitrust, bankruptcy/restructuring, litigation, and real estate. Chambers USA gives its top rating […]
Ellis & Winters LLP is pleased to announce that twenty of its attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2016 North Carolina Super Lawyers and North Carolina “Rising Stars” lists. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer […]
Ellis & Winters LLP is pleased to announce thirteen of its attorneys have been ranked among Business North Carolina magazine’s 2016 “Legal Elite” and “Hall of Fame.” Since 2001, this listing has been published to honor lawyers who have been recognized by their peers as one of the top practitioners in the […]
Jonathan A. Berkelhammer By Jon Berkelhammer The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were designed to “secure a just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 1. Yet with the previously “accepted rule that a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it […]