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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Womble Carlyle has a 130-year track record of community leadership, going back to the very beginning of the firm. Times change, the practice of law may change, but that commitment to the greater community has never wavered.
 

For their efforts in this area, Keith Vaughan, Womble Carlyle’s Managing Member, and Pete Brunstetter, Member of Womble Carlyle and North Carolina State Senator, have been recognized as two of the “Triad’s Most Influential People.” The sixth annual list is compiled by the Triad Business Journal.

Triad Business Journal Publisher Douglas W. Copeland Jr. said honorees weren’t “defined by how many boards an individual sits on, but rather how an individual can move colleagues and communities to action.”

The Triad Business Journal said of Vaughan, “Aside from guiding the state’s largest law firm, Vaughan is active in numerous economic development organizations, including the Piedmont Triad Partnership, Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce and Winston-Salem Alliance. He also chairs the 2009 campaign for the United Way of Forsyth County and is a member of Kelly King’s Triad executive leadership board.”

Vaughan has served as Chairman of the Firm Management Committee and Managing Member of Womble Carlyle since February, 2002. Before that, he served for 10 years as the Firm's Litigation Practice Group Leader. In 2007, he was recognized in a survey of large law firm managing partners as one of 10 "Most Admired Leaders."

Brunstetter's wide-ranging business law practice includes corporate and public finance, mergers and acquisitions, business transactions, health care and health care transactions. He represents District 31 in the North Carolina State Senate.

The “Triad's Most Influential People” special section appeared in the Dec. 4, 2009, edition of the Triad Business Journal.