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Womble Carlyle Hosts 2007 CLEO Closing Ceremony
August 2, 2007
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC will host a closing ceremony reception for the "Road to Law School Academy" program, co-sponsored by Womble Carlyle and the Council on Legal Education and Opportunity (CLEO). The reception will be held on August 3rd at 5:30 p.m. at Womble Carlyle's Winston-Salem office. Mayor Allen Joines; Womble Carlyle Managing Member, Keith Vaughan; and the Honorable Judge James A. Wynn, Jr. will speak during the program. The Triad Youth Jazz Society will also perform at the ceremony.
This reception marks the culmination of the extraordinary efforts put forth by Womble Carlyle and Gloria Agard, the firm's Director of Diversity & Workplace Initiatives, to initiate a four-week program offering 20 minority, undergraduate students from UNC-Greensboro, NC A&T State University, NC Central University, and Winston-Salem State University, intensive instruction on law, logic and legal reasoning. The four-week residential program was created to help these students prepare for college and specifically for the Law School Admission Test and graduate studies. The program was also formed to promote diversity among judges and practicing attorneys in the state and increase access to the legal system in low-income communities.
Womble Carlyle member, Cal Adams, taught a course on Legal Reasoning and Contracts while other Womble Carlyle guest speakers included the Honorable Judge Frank Bullock, Tony Brett, Jackie Camp, Georgi Yonuschot, Alison Bost, Greg Chabon, Alison-Ashe Card, Antonio Lewis, Lucretia Guia and the firm's Talent Management Leadership Team. Speakers informed students about their respective areas of law, law as a profession, and tips for the LSAT.
For more information on the program or on Womble Carlyle’s Diversity & Workplace Initiatives, please contact Gloria Agard.
About Womble Carlyle
A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle is ranked among the AmLaw 100, American Lawyer magazine's annual list of the country's leading law firms, and is a top law firm for companies doing business in the South Atlantic and mid-Atlantic states. The firm is a recipient of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award, making Womble Carlyle the first law firm ever to receive the highest honor given to a business organization in recognition of its support of the Fund and its 45 member educational institutions.
Founded in 1876, Womble Carlyle operates in six states and the District of Columbia with about 550 attorneys in eleven offices located in Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Wilmington, DE; and Baltimore, MD. Although located in the South Atlantic and mid-Atlantic regions, Womble Carlyle draws its client base from across the United States.
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