Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Gresham & Sumter, P.A.

About this office:

Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Gresham & Sumter, P.A. is a multi-specialty law firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, which has been in business since 1964. The firm was founded by Julius L. Chambers, who left the firm in 1984 to become Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. in New York and returned to the firm in 2001. Currently there are a total of 13 attorneys from diverse backgrounds working in the Charlotte and Chapel Hill offices. The firm has a national and international reputation in school desegregation, employment discrimination, voting rights, general civil rights litigation, and criminal defense. It is also nationally and regionally known for its representation of plaintiffs in personal injury and medical negligence cases, and its work in teacher rights and education law, administrative law, workers compensation, and estates, business, corporate and commercial real estate matters. Listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, the firm encourages professional development and activities: many of its members hold leadership positions in a wide variety of professional organizations and regularly teach academic courses in addition to trial advocacy and continuing legal education programs.