USA – NORTH CAROLINA
West Virginia
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Raleigh North Carolina
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Kelly Margolis Dagger, Scottie Forbes Lee and Thomas H. Segars Ellis & Winters LLP
South Carolina
Atlantic Ocean
Georgia
Ellis & Winters LLP is a 44-lawyer litigation and commercial real estate firm with offices in Raleigh, Greensboro, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Ellis & Winters began in 2000 as a boutique and has grown into a mid-sized regional firm through the careful ad - dition of both lateral and new attorneys who have combined to improve the firm’s capabilities in han - dling sophisticated matters. The litigation team han - dles a broad spectrum of matters, from pre-suit in -
vestigations and counselling through trial and appeal. This experience has given the firm’s lawyers broader perspectives on how a case can develop and how to execute an exit strategy, when needed, that will lead to favourable results. Ellis & Winters’ lean and decen - tralised organisational structure puts its clients’ legal matters in the hands of those who are best equipped to resolve them at every stage of the dispute-resolu - tion process.
Authors
Kelly Margolis Dagger is a veteran trial and appellate lawyer with in-depth knowledge of civil and criminal federal court practice. Her civil litigation experience includes antitrust, consumer, and unfair
Thomas H. Segars is the head of Ellis & Winters’ trial and litigation practice. He litigates a variety of complex business disputes. Tom currently serves as an editor of six state chapters of the ABA’s forthcoming
competition claims, intellectual property disputes, and other complex commercial disputes. At Ellis & Winters, she focuses her criminal practice on defence of federal felony charges, including white- collar charges, and internal investigations. Kelly is a past president of the Eastern District of North Carolina Federal Bar Association and serves on numerous court-related committees.
Sixth Edition of the State Antitrust Practice and Statutes treatise. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Board of Governors, a two-time Chair of its Antitrust & Complex Business Disputes Section, and the 2024 recipient of that Section’s Distinguished Service Award.
Scottie Forbes Lee focuses her practice at Ellis & Winters on complex litigation, antitrust, and appeals. She is an editor of “What’s Fair?”, a blog on the law of unfair trade practices. Scottie is active in the legal
community, both locally and nationally. Among other things, she serves on the leadership of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section and is on the editorial board for the ABA’s Antitrust Law Journal.
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