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Edward Griggs Wins State Continuing Legal Education Volunteer Award from N.C. Bar Association
January 25, 2008
The North Carolina Bar Association honored Womble Carlyle attorney Edward Griggs with its 2007 Outstanding Continuing Legal Education Volunteer of the Year Award Thursday at the Association’s Winter Meeting in Cary.
NCBA President Janet Ward Black and Dan McLawhorn, who chairs the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the NCBA Foundation, presented the award. William F. Womble Sr., a Womble Carlyle senior member and Past President of the North Carolina Bar Association, attended the ceremony.
Griggs served as the chair of the Estate Planning & Fiduciary Law Section's Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Committee during the 2006-07 fiscal year, after first joining the committee in early 2004. In his capacity as a committee member and committee chair, he helped organize and plan numerous CLE events, which give attorneys the chance to expand their knowledge to better serve their clients. CLE events offered during Griggs' tenure as committee chair included seminars in Asheville, Greensboro and Raleigh, as well as the Section's Annual Meeting in Kiawah Island, S.C.
"His contributions should be recognized as those of an exceptional volunteer program planner whose commitment to CLE ensures quality programming for our members," McLawhorn said.
Griggs hails from Cheraw, S.C. He is a 2000 graduate of Wake Forest University and received his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2003.
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.