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Over Half of Ellis Lawhorne Shareholders Selected as Best Lawyers in America®

Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims, P.A. is pleased to announce that 11 of the Firm's 32 attorneys - over half of the Firm's shareholders - were named to the 2008 edition of Best Lawyers in America®.

Those honored include all five of the Firm's shareholders specializing in workers' compensation law. They are F. Earl Ellis, Jr., Ernest G. Lawhorne, William R. Harbison, Mary Sowell League and Lana H. Sims, Jr.

All three of the Firm's shareholders specializing in trusts and estates were also selected: Rita Bragg Cullum, David C. Sojourner and Karen Hudson Thomas.

William O. Higgins and William P. McElveen, Jr., both shareholders at Ellis Lawhorne specializing in real estate law, and John T. Lay, Jr., also a shareholder, specializing in commercial litigation, were named to the Best Lawyers in America list as well.

"The Firm is proud to associate with some of the brightest legal minds in the country. We continue to strive to make our Firm the premier law firm in South Carolina," says Tommy Little, executive director for Ellis Lawhorne.

Published biennially since 1983, Best Lawyers in America is widely regarded as the preeminent referral guide to the legal profession in the United States. The Best Lawyers lists, representing 80 specialties in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., are compiled through an exhaustive peer-review survey in which thousands of top lawyers in the U.S. confidentially evaluate their professional peers.