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Womble Carlyle placed 100 attorneys firm-wide on Woodward/White Inc.'s The Best Lawyers in America rankings for 2011.
 

The following is a list of the Womble Carlyle attorneys who rank among the country’s best. Attorneys marked with an asterisk (*) are first-time selections to the Best Lawyers list. Lawyers marked with (10) have been on the Best Lawyers list for at least 10 years. Those marked with (20) have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 20 years, while those marked with (25) have been on the Best Lawyers list for at least 25 years:
 

Atlanta
Steven S. Dunlevie, Banking Law
William M. Ragland, Jr., Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law
Michael J. Sullivan, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation
James F. Vaughan, Intellectual Property Litigation
Richard H. Vincent, Health Care Law
 

David Hamilton, Commercial Litigation
John Parker Sweeney, Mass Tort Litigation, Product Liability Litigation
T. Sky Woodward, Mass Tort Litigation, Product Liability Litigation

 

Charlotte
Garza Baldwin III (10), Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Securities Law, Corporate Law
G. Michael Barnhill, Commercial Litigation
Cornelius W. Coghill III, Trusts and Estates
Jim D. Cooley, Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation
James P. Cooney III (10), Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Medical Malpractice Law, Non-White-Collar Criminal Defense, Personal Injury Litigation, White-Collar Criminal Defense
James E. Daniel, Employee Benefits Law
Bradford A. De Vore, Environmental Law
Debbie Harden, Commercial Litigation
Jeffrey S. Hay, Corporate Law and Venture Capital Law
Mark J. Horoschak, Antitrust Law and Health Care Law
Cyrus M. Johnson, Jr., Corporate Law
Jane Jeffries Jones, Securities Law
Donald C. Lampe, Banking Law and Corporate Law

Richard E. Morton, Environmental Law
Thomas A. Price, Venture Capital Law
Richard L. Rainey, Labor and Employment Law
William C. Raper (20), Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation
Raboteau T. Wilder, Jr., Health Care Law

 

Greensboro
Frank W. Bullock, Jr., Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Law

Randall A. Hanson, Mergers & Acquisition Law
Jack B. Hicks, Intellectual Property Law
James M. Powell (10), Labor and Employment Law
C. Robert Rhodes, Intellectual Property Law
Thomas S. Stukes (10), Health Care Law
 

Greenville
Larry D. Estridge (20), Real Estate Law
R. Howard Grubbs (10), Environmental Law
D. Allen Grumbine, Corporate Law
Sandra Louise Weikel Miller, Heath Care Law
Samuel W. Outten, Commercial Litigation
W. Lindsay Smith (10), Real Estate Law
Elizabeth O. Temple, Securities Law
Rory D. Whelehan, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
 

Raleigh
Paul H. Billow, Public Finance Law
Kenneth G. Carroll (10), Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law

John C. Cooke, Land Use & Zoning Law
Donald A. Donadio (10), Real Estate Law
Marilyn R. Forbes, Mass Tort Litigation
Garth A. Gersten, Insurance Law
G. Thomas Lee, Public Finance Law
Johnny M. Loper, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation
William C. Matthews, Jr., Real Estate Law
Pressly M. Millen, Antitrust Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation
Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., Appellate Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation
Frederick W. Rom, Product Liability Litigation
Nellie K. Shipley, Real Estate Law
 

Research Triangle Park
Leslie E. Browder (25), Real Estate Law
Kenneth N. Shelton, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Private Funds Law, Timber Law
 

Washington
Richard David, Real Estate Law
Diane J. Fuchs, Employee Benefits Law
John D. Hagner, Real Estate Law
Pamela V. Rothenberg, Real Estate Law
Jeffrey L. Tarkenton, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
 

Winston-Salem
Alfred G. Adams (20), Real Estate Law
Jean Taylor Adams (10), Trusts and Estates
Reid C. Adams, Jr., Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation
Elizabeth K. Arias, Trusts & Estates
H. Grady Barnhill, Jr. (25), Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation
Jimmy H. Barnhill (10), Family Law
Anthony H. Brett (20), Health Care Law
Peter S. Brunstetter (10), Corporate Law, Health Care Law
Karen E. Carey, Construction Law
Keith A. Clinard, Commercial Litigation
W. Andrew Copenhaver (10), Antitrust Law, Commercial Litigation
Mary Nell Craven, Family Law
Linwood L. Davis (25), Corporate Law, Non-Profit/Charities Law
Ronald R. Davis, Commercial Litigation
Charles A. Edwards, Labor and Employment Law
Gusti W. Frankel, Municipal Law, Personal Injury Litigation
Allan R. Gitter (20), Medical Malpractice Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Professional Malpractice Law
Ellen M. Gregg, Commercial Litigation
Michael D. Gunter (10), Corporate Law, Employee Benefits Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Hardin G. Halsey, Real Estate Law and Timber Law
Hada de Varona Haulsee, Product Liability Litigation
Lori Privette Hinnant, Environmental Law
Jeffrey C. Howland (10), Corporate Law, Securities Law, Technology Law, Venture Capital Law
Jeffrey T. Lawyer, Tax Law
Christopher E. Leon, Banking Law
R. Michael Leonard, Mass Tort Litigation
James R. Morgan, Jr., Labor and Employment Law
Kenneth A. Moser (10), Banking Law, Real Estate Law
Elizabeth L. Quick (20), Trusts and Estates
George A. Ragland (10), Trusts and Estates
Michael E. Ray, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Law
Richard T. Rice (10), Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation, Professional Malpractice Law
Greg L. Smith (10), Corporate Law, Health Care Law and Tax Law
Kimberly H. Stogner, Trusts & Estates
William B. Sullivan (10), Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Keith W. Vaughan (10), Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation
William R. Whitehurst, Employee Benefits Law
C. Mark Wiley (10), Tax Law
Erna A.P. Womble, Product Liability Litigation
William F. Womble, Jr. (10), Commercial Litigation, Medical Malpractice Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation
 

The 2010 edition is the seventeenth edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey in which thousands of top leading attorneys throughout the country cast votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties. The current edition is based on more than 1.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

 

 

Womble Carlyle is a full-service business law firm with a focus on innovative solutions to client needs. The firm supports the Association of Corporate Counsel in the ACC Value Challenge, which seeks to better align legal services with the needs of corporate clients.

The firm is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally, with more than 500 attorneys in eleven offices: Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Baltimore, MD; and Wilmington, DE.

In the community, the firm is the first law firm to receive the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award as well as the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award.