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Corporate,
Civil Rights

Sep. 20, 2024

Cross talk, squabbling, finger pointing in hearing on witness deposition

Lead plaintiffs' counsel Dennis S. Ellis, a partner at Ellis George LLP, said he took issue with the fact that his colleague flew from Los Angeles to North Carolina the night before a witness deposition only to be turned away by Wells Fargo's attorneys and escorted from the building by security.  "That is not true," McGuireWoods LLP partner Ava E. Lias-Booker insisted. 

Lias-Booker. Courtesy of McGuire Woods LLP

A motion for sanctions against Wells Fargo & Co. dissolved into tense cross talk and squabbling between the attorneys as they told a federal judge on Thursday that allegations that the bank considered aspiring white homeowners more favorably for mortgage loans than their minority counterparts were unlikely to be resolved before trial. 

Lead plaintiffs' counsel Dennis S. Ellis, a partner at Ellis George LLP, said he took issue with the fact that his colleague flew from Los ...

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