A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a sentence with one hundred words is worth more than $400 million for the nation’s tobacco farmers. Raleigh law firm Ellis & Winters led the legal team that prevailed in a complex case involving 300,000 tobacco farmers along with officials, lawyers, […]
Published in the FDCC Quarterly, Fall 2005. Reprinted with permission from 56 FED’N DEF. & CORP. COUNS. Q 77 (2005). All rights reserved. By Leslie C. Packer and Wendy Sexton Introduction One of the most powerful evidentiary tools available to plaintiffs is the use of a company’s own “bad” documents against it […]
The 2005 edition of Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business lauds Ellis & Winters LLP, the smallest firm recognized for excelling in litigation, as having attracted recommendations from peers as “a very focused practice producing superb quality work.” The publication also heralded Dick Ellis and Matt Sawchak. Chambers USA describes Dick Ellis […]
Ellis & Winters LLP is pleased to announce that five of its partners have been named to this year’s Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite. Honorees, selected by all lawyers licensed by the North Carolina State Bar, include: Dick Ellis, Litigation Leslie O’Toole, Litigation Jon Sasser, Litigation Matt Sawchak, Antitrust (Hall […]