One of the founders of Ellis & Winters LLP, Paul Sun is a trial lawyer focusing primarily on business litigation, employment litigation, and appeals. He has substantial experience handling litigation involving trade secrets and unfair competition, business and healthcare fraud, employment law issues, intellectual property rights, consumer claims, premises and product liability, and contract disputes.
Over the course of his career, Paul has tried civil cases in areas including breach of contract, employment discrimination, misappropriation of trade secrets, healthcare fraud, product liability, wrongful death, and First Amendment violations. He has argued cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the North Carolina Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, successfully representing clients as both appellants and appellees.
Paul also has significant experience as a criminal defense lawyer, representing individual and corporate clients from pre‑indictment investigations through trial and appeal. His work has included defense of clients charged with Medicare and Medicaid fraud, mortgage fraud, securities fraud, federal programs bribery, theft of government property, robbery, narcotics trafficking, firearms offenses, and immigration offenses. Paul serves on the Criminal Justice Act Panels for the Eastern District of North Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Paul believes litigation is fundamentally a client‑service business. He emphasizes deep knowledge of both cases and clients, combined with reliability, flexibility, and responsiveness, to deliver effective and practical advocacy.
