News Article
Charlie Edwards and Labor Employment Practice Group Profiled in Employment Law360
December 13, 2006
Excerpt - Law Firm Profile: Womble Carlyle (Employment Law360.com Feature)
When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce called on Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice to handle its amicus brief in a precedent-setting employee dispute, the agency took note of the firm's savvy in the area, according to Womble Carlyle partner Charles A. Edwards, who heads up the firm's Labor and Employment group.
Womble Carlyle helped the agency put its legal position into words when a former employee of New Jersey drug maker Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. was seeking whistleblower protection from retaliation under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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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.