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 […]
For the tenth consecutive year, Chambers USA has accorded leading rankings in North Carolina to Ellis & Winters and seven of its lawyers. In the 2014 edition of Chambers USA, the firm is highly rated in each of its primary areas of practice: antitrust, bankruptcy/restructuring, litigation, and real estate. Ellis & Winters, with […]
Ellis & Winters LLP has launched “What’s Fair? A Blog on the Law of Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices.” The blog discusses an important and unclear area of the law: the North Carolina law that awards triple damages for a largely undefined category of conduct: “unfair and deceptive acts and […]