The Lewis & Roberts Law Firm
Lewis & Roberts PLLC is one of the largest North Carolina law firms dedicated exclusively to representing clients in litigation. The firm's Civil Litigation Group handles complex civil cases, with significant experience in construction defects, class actions, business torts, abusive tax shelter litigation, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and neglect, products liability and wrongful death law. The lawyers in our Civil Litigation Group primarily represent property owners, consumers, minority shareholders and injury victims and their families. The firm's Workers' Compensation Group primarily represents employers and insurers in the defense of claims. The firm maintains the highest rating by Martindale-Hubbell (AV) and has numerous members chosen by their peers to hold leadership positions and as representatives of the highest caliber in their respective fields of practice. The firm has offices in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina.
In The News
The Food and Drug Administration recently announced a Class 1 recall of Medtronic Sprint Fidelis heart defibrillator leads. Lewis & Roberts is currently reviewing cases in which patients have had the subject defibrillator leads inserted. Please visit our Medtronic Defibrillator Litigation page if you think you or a family member may be affected.
Lewis & Roberts recently filed a class action in federal court against Commercial Defeasance, LLC (CD) and Defeasance Holding Company, LLC (DHC). CD offers mortgage loan defeasance services to holders of certain commercial mortgages. The lawsuit alleges that class members were not fully informed of certain types of compensation received by CD and DHC in the loan defeasance transactions. More information is available on our class action page.
Lewis & Roberts is ranked in the top 25 of Lawyers Weekly's annual Large Verdicts and Settlements Supplement for 2006.
One of our partners, Jim Roberts, was recently selected by his peers to be included in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialties of Commercial Litigation, Construction Law and Personal Injury Litigation. Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey that has been developed and refined for nearly 25 years. Because no fee or purchase is required to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
Lewis & Roberts and its co-counsel, Keller Rohrback, recently reached a settlement with Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation to resolve an ERISA class action alleging that Krispy Kreme mismanaged the company's 401(k) and profit sharing plans. Lewis & Roberts represents company employees who lost value in their retirement accounts. The proposed cash settlement totals $4.75 million. In addition to the cash payment, Krispy Kreme has agreed to make certain changes to the retirement plans. The settlement remains subject to approval by the court.
Lewis & Roberts is representing numerous clients against large accounting firms (RSM McGladrey, PWC, KPMG, BDO Seidman), banks (Wachovia, Deutsche Bank, First Union), investment houses (Presidio, Gramercy Advisors, Quadra/Quellos) and law firms (Brown & Wood, Pillsbury Madison, Jenkens & Gilchrist) related to abusive tax shelters that cost our clients millions of dollars in fees and related costs. We have been able to recover many of these fees for clients who were sold tax shelters that have been described by the IRS as "sham" shelters. Visit our abusive tax shelter litigation page for more information.
Lewis & Roberts is currently investigating and reviewing medical information from clients who have taken Adderall and Adderall XR manufactured by Shire US Incorporated Adderall is a drug mostly prescribed to children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. Adderall may cause heart attacks and other heart related illnesses and sudden death in children. Please visit our Adderall page for more information.
One of our partners, Tim Riordan, was recently elected as Section Council of the North Carolina Bar Associations' Workers' Compensation Section. Mr. Riordan succeeds another of our partners, Brian Lake, in that position.