News Article
Georgia Super Lawyers Honors 15 Womble Carlyle Attorneys
April 30, 2012
Public relations contact: Bruce Buchanan, (336) 728-7027
ATLANTA—Fifteen attorneys in Womble Carlyle’s Atlanta office have been named to the 2012 lists of Georgia Super Lawyers and Georgia Rising Stars.
Womble Carlyle attorneys honored by Georgia Super Lawyers are:
Steven S. Dunlevie—Banking
James F. Vaughan—Intellectual Property
Richard H. Vincent—Health Care
**Jill M. Girardeau—Health Care
**John G. Perry—Business Litigation
Robert R. Ambler, Jr.—Business Litigation
James E. Connelly—Securities Litigation
John G. Despriet—Securities Litigation
T. Clark Fitzgerald III—Securities & Corporate Finance
John F. Sandy Smith—Business/Corporate
*% William M. Ragland, Jr.—Business Litigation
Clinton D. Richardson—Securities & Corporate Finance
John A. Thomson, Jr.—Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
Jack M. Williams—Criminal Defense: White Collar
Michael J. Sullivan—Personal Injury Defense: Products
* Denotes a Top 100 listing
**Denotes Rising Star
% For the sixth time, Georgia Super Lawyers has named Bill Ragland one of the state’s Top 100 attorneys.
Georgia Super Lawyers is a listing of the top five percent of lawyers in the state who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The multi-step process involved soliciting nominations from attorneys across the state (lawyers were not allowed to vote for themselves), followed by a thorough case-by-case review of each nominee. Georgia Rising Stars recognizes outstanding attorneys who are 40 or under, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. No more than 2.5% of Georgia lawyers are named to this list.
About Womble Carlyle
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 serves clients nationally and globally with more than 550 attorneys in fourteen offices: Atlanta; Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, S.C.; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; Silicon Valley, Calif., Washington, D.C.; Tysons Corner, Va.; Baltimore; and Wilmington, Del.
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.
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 serves clients nationally and globally with more than 550 attorneys in fourteen offices: Atlanta; Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, S.C.; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; Silicon Valley, Calif., Washington, D.C.; Tysons Corner, Va.; Baltimore; and Wilmington, Del.
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.
