Press Release
Employee Benefits Attorney Bill Wright Joins Womble Carlyle's Winston-Salem Office
Public Relations Contact: Bruce Buchanan, (336) 728-7027
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Veteran employee benefits attorney William E. “Bill” Wright has joined Womble Carlyle’s Winston-Salem office.
Wright spent more than 20 years at Kilpatrick Stockton, where he established a reputation as one of the Triad’s top employee benefits attorneys. There, he was named to The Best Lawyers in America for seven consecutive years (2000-06) and named to the list of North Carolina Super Lawyers. Wright also is an AV Rated Attorney by Martindale-Hubbell.
Since 2006, Wright has been a law professor at Shandong University in Jinan, China. There, he taught business law, American Constitutional law, legal English jurisprudence and intellectual property law. He
also is a former adjunct professor at the Wake Forest University School of Law.
“It’s not often that a firm gets the opportunity to add an attorney of Bill’s caliber and reputation in the community,” said Mike Gunter, leader of Womble Carlyle’s Employee Benefits Practice Group. “We are delighted that Bill has chosen to return to private practice with Womble Carlyle.”
Womble Carlyle—Innovators at Law
A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle ranks among the 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.