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Brent Clinkscale Pens Guest Column In Support of Phillis Wheatley Association

February 11, 2009

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GREENVILLE, S.C.—The February 11th edition of the Greenville News features a guest column on the Phillis Wheatley Association from Womble Carlyle attorney Brent Clinkscale.

Clinkscale is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Phillis Wheatley Association, one of South Carolina’s oldest non-profit organizations. The Phillis Wheatley Association works to reduce the high school dropout rate in Greenville County and provides needed programs for low-income families and children.

About Brent Clinkscale
Brent Clinkscale is a business litigation attorney in the firm’s Greenville Office. He is general counsel to the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund; a member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference; a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC); and chair person of Womble Carlyle’s Diversity Committee. Brent was named 2004 Greenville Business Person of the Year and 2005 Greenville Magazine’s 50 Most Influential. He also received the Leon Rice Award for service to the community from Womble Carlyle in 2002.

A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle ranks among AmLaw's 100 leading firms in the country and is a top law firm for companies doing business in the Southeast 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 nearly 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. Womble Carlyle is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally.