Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

Ted Wells co-chairs the Litigation Department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison and is widely recognized as one of the best trial lawyers in America.  The National Law Journal named Ted one of “The Decade’s Most Influential Lawyers” in 2010 and “Lawyer of the Year” in 2006.  In 2019, Benchmark Litigation named Ted “Trial Lawyer of the Year”.  Long devoted to the advancement of civil rights, Wells is chairman emeritus of the board of directors of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, widely regarded as the nation's leading civil rights law organization, which awarded him its Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.  Since 2013 he has been a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation.