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Five Womble Carlyle Attorneys Honored as "Lawyers of the Year" in National Report
October 26, 2010
Five Womble Carlyle Attorneys have been selected as Best Lawyers’ 2011 Lawyers of the Year for their respective markets and practice areas. They are:
- Jean T. Adams has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2011 Greensboro/Winston-Salem area Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year.
- James P. Cooney, III has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2011 Charlotte Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year.
- Allan R. Gitter has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2011 Greensboro/Winston-Salem area Professional Malpractice Lawyer of the Year.
- Pressly M. Millen has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2011 Raleigh Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year.
- Keith W. Vaughan has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2011 Greensboro/Winston-Salem area Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year.
Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 17th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2011) is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
