Ellis & Winters LLP is extremely pleased to announce that 14 of our 17 partners have been named North Carolina Super Lawyers for 2011. Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 60 practice areas, selected by their peers to create a comprehensive listing of outstanding attorneys […]
Ellis & Winters LLP congratulates partners Jonathan D. Sasser and Thomas H. Segars for winning North Carolina’s largest verdict of 2008. Representing Serenex, Inc., an RTP drug development company recently purchased by Pfizer, they obtained a judgment in excess of $57 million in Wake County Superior Court. The international corporate espionage lawsuit originated after […]
Ellis & Winters is proud to announce that Thomas H. Segars has been named a partner in the firm. Mr. Segars is a graduate of Wake Forest University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude, 1997) and the University of North Carolina School of Law (J.D., with High Honors, Order of the Coif, 2000). After graduation, Mr. Segars […]
This article previously appeared in The Constitutionalist (Sept. 2006). It is reprinted with permission. By Thomas H. Segars The Sixth Amendment provides the accused in all criminal prosecutions with the right to have “the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.” Separate and apart from the more familiar, effective assistance of counsel […]