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Womble Carlyle Presents ACC Value Challenge Program

January 15, 2009

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Womble Carlyle presented an interactive program on the Association of Corporate Counsel’s (ACC) Value Challenge to more than 100 in-house counsel at the ACC-Georgia Chapter lunch meeting on January 13 in Atlanta. The program, entitled "The ACC Value Challenge: Reconnecting Value to Costs for Legal Services" addressed the ACC’s efforts to promote dialogue among corporate counsel and law firms in the interest of driving an alignment and focus on value. Womble Carlyle participants included Keith Vaughan, Firm Managing Member; Kirk Watkins, Member, Litigation Practice Group; Bill Turner, Director of Practice Management; Steve Bell, Chief Client Development Officer; and Chris Kimbel, Regional Sales Director. Also on the panel was Teresa Kennedy, Assistant General Counsel at Cox Communications.

Womble Carlyle is a firm identified by the ACC as a leader in the legal community committed to promoting change specific to how value-based results are determined and rewarded. Click here to learn more about the ACC Challenge.

Article on the event (Fulton County Daily Report)

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.