The law firm of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP is pleased to announce that Ellis R. Lesemann has joined the Firm as an Associate in its Charleston office. Mr. Lesemann concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law and business litigation and is a member of Parker Poe’s Regulation of Business and Governmental Relations Department.

Mr. Lesemann received his J.D. (1998), M.I.B.S. (1998) and B.A. (1994) from the University of South Carolina. He is admitted to the South Carolina Bar.

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP currently has 166 lawyers, with five offices in the Carolinas. Parker Poe has North Carolina offices in Charlotte and Raleigh and South Carolina offices in Charleston, Columbia and Spartanburg. The Firm provides a complete range of legal services, including expertise in antitrust and business torts, banking and finance, bankruptcy, reorganization and creditors' rights, commercial litigation, corporate and commercial law, employee benefits, employment, environmental, international, real estate and commercial development, securities, tax, and torts, trial and insurance.