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Womble Carlyle Attorneys Honored By NC Justice and Community Development Center
October 23, 2003
Womble Carlyle attorneys Reid "Cal" Adams and Garth Gersten were honored at the North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center Defenders of Justice Awards on October 23, 2003 for their forceful and devoted pro bono work to assure access to dental care for low-income children in North Carolina.
Honorees and guests attended an awards banquet at the Exploris Museum in downtown Raleigh.
First presented in 1999, the Defenders of Justice Awards honor those who have made significant to North Carolina's fight against poverty in four areas that reflect the scope of their work:
1) Litigation;
2) Research and Public Policy Development;
3) Public Policy Advocacy; and
4) Grassroots Empowerment/Community Capacity Building
Click here for more information on the North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center and the Defenders of Justice Awards.
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.