Our major practice areas include professional malpractice defense (particularly on behalf of lawyers) and commercial litigation involving businesses and consumers. Our partners possess nationwide reputations in 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 also 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 as a "first tier" firm in the field of legal malpractice defense by 2011-12 Best Law Firms, a publication of U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers. The rankings, also available on the U.S. News website, 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 has defended hundreds of professional malpractice cases. He has won more than 30 cases on behalf of the lawyers and law firms he has defended at trial. For three consecutive years—2010, 2011 and 2012—he has been been listed under the specialty of Legal Malpractice Law in The Best Lawyers of America.

For the previous seven consecutive years and again in 2011, Mr. Ellis was named a Northern California Super Lawyer. And for the third consecutive year, partner Andrew Steinheimer

The Firm sees its strength in its partners’ abilities to break down issues in any case so they can be effectively presented to a judge or jury. Each case is unique and requires its own individual plan and approach.

The Firm’s mission statement mandates that each case will be individually tailored and handcrafted for trial, not settlement. The partners of Ellis Law Group LLP believe this approach is much more likely to produce a favorable resolution for the client because opposing parties understand that the Firm's partners will not only try the case, but try it well.

Recent trials by the partners have involved such varied areas of the law as legal malpractice defense, FDCPA defense, FCRA defense, banking and commercial law, breach of contract, plaintiff’s personal injury, quieting title in real property, and the successful defense at trial of a wrongful death case.

The Firm’s partners bring more than 75 years of combined legal experience to each client and case. The Firm also works with certain highly experienced attorneys who act as "of counsel" on selected cases. We are decidedly not a "9-to-5" law firm. Every single day, we represent clients who have serious legal problems. The partners understand that our clients' reputations, finances and futures are often at risk. For these reasons, the partners of Ellis Law Group LLP zealously represent their clients. It is a job the Firm welcomes and takes seriously.