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Womble Carlyle Sponors 2008 Council for Entrepreneurial Development Biotech Conference - May 19-20

Womble Carlyle will sponsor the 2008 Biotech Conference to be held May 19-20, 2008, at the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The conference, now in its 17th year, is hosted by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development and brings together a variety of life sciences industry executives to talk about the biotech industry in the Southeast and beyond.

Jim Hunt, former four-term Governor of North Carolina and Womble Carlyle member, will serve as a featured speaker on the opening day of the conference and Edward Saltzman, Founder and President of Defined Health, will open the second day of the conference. Art Foley, Sales Director of the firm's Life Sciences Industry Group, serves on the Steering Committee for the conference. 

About James B. Hunt, Jr.
Jim Hunt is a nationally recognized leader in education and has led North Carolina through twenty years of dramatic economic change. Serving a historic fourth term as Governor, he has been at the forefront of education reform in his state and in the nation. Admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1966, Governor Hunt currently is a member in the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, in Raleigh.

About Life Sciences at Womble Carlyle
Womble Carlyle is a full-service business law firm that provides a wide-ranging array of specialty services that life science companies need in order to be successful. Our clients are varied and cover the continuum from university spin-offs and venture capital-backed start-ups to Fortune 100 multi-national corporations. Our Life Sciences Industry Group, a multi-disciplinary team, focuses primarily on three industry segments — pharmaceutical and animal health; biotechnology; and medical devices.