Our major practice areas include FDCPA defense, professional malpractice litigation (particularly legal malpractice defense) and commercial litigation involving banks, businesses and individuals. The firm has a nationwide reputation for defending collection professionals and law firms sued under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and their state law equivalents. We possess extensive experience in handling complex litigation, including class actions under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 and under California's Unfair Competition Law, Business and Professions Code §17200.

The Ellis Law Group is ranked a "first tier" firm in the field of legal malpractice defense in 2021 Best Law Firms, a publication of U.S. News & World Report. It is the tenth consecutive year that Ellis Law Group has been so honored. The rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that included thousands of clients, leading lawyers and law firm representatives.

Our Firm's founding and managing partner, Mark E. Ellis, is certified as a specialist in legal malpractice law by the Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California. He has tried and won scores of cases on behalf of the lawyers and law firms he has defended at trial. For 11 consecutive years, Mr. Ellis has been been named one of America's top trial attorneys

Mr. Ellis was named a "Super Lawyer" in civil litigation for the seventeenth year by the attorney-rating service Super Lawyers and is included among the nation's top civil litigators in Super Lawyers Business Edition, a publication distributed to 40,000 CEOs, presidents and in-house counsel. For the sixth consecutive year, Sacramento Magazine named Mr. Ellis a "Top Lawyer" based on an annual survey of licensed attorneys in Sacramento. He is regarded as one of the top three legal malpractice defense attorneys practicing in the metropolitan area.

Recent successful trials have involved such varied areas of the law as legal malpractice defense, FDCPA defense, FCRA defense, TCPA class action defense, banking and commercial law, commercial landlord/tenant, breach of contract, personal injury, quieting title to real property, and sexual harassment defense.

Ellis Law Group, LLP is decidedly not a "9-to-5" law firm. Every single day, we represent clients who have serious legal problems. Our Firm understands that its clients' reputations, emotional tranquility, finances and futures are often at risk. For these reasons, the attorneys of Ellis Law Group LLP zealously represent their clients. It is a job our attorneys and staff welcome and take very seriously.