Press Release

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RALEIGH, NC -- Fifteen attorneys in Womble Carlyle's Raleigh and Research Triangle Park offices have ranked highly on Woodward/White Inc.'s The Best Lawyers in America rankings for 2010. In addition, the firm ranked #1 overall in the Research Triangle Park market and #1 overall in North Carolina.

Womble Carlyle also ranked #1 in Raleigh for Appellate Law, Insurance Law, Mass Tort Litigation and Public Finance Law, and #1 in Research Triangle Park in Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Private Funds Law, Real Estate Law and Timber Law.

Triangle lawyers ranking among the country's best are:

Raleigh

Paul H. Billow, Public Finance Law

Kenneth G. Carroll, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Donald A. Donadio (10), Real Estate Law

Robert E. Fields III, Mass Tort Litigation

Marilyn R. Forbes, Mass Tort Litigation

Garth A. Gersten, Insurance Law

G. Thomas Lee, Public Finance Law

Johnny M. Loper, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation

William C. Matthews, Jr., Real Estate Law

Pressly M. Millen, Antitrust Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation

Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., Appellate Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation

Frederick W. Rom, Product Liability Litigation

Research Triangle Park

Leslie E. Browder (20), Real Estate Law

Kenneth N. Shelton, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Private Funds Law, Timber Law

(Attorneys marked with an asterisk (*) are first-time selections to the Best Lawyers list. Lawyers marked with (10) have been on the Best Lawyers list for at least 10 years. Those marked with (20) have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 20 years.)

Womble Carlyle - Innovators at Law

A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle ranks among American Lawyer magazine's list of the 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.

The firm also is the first law firm to be awarded the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award, which is the highest recognition given by the U.S. government to employers for their support of employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve.

Founded in 1876, Womble Carlyle operates in six states and the District of Columbia with more than 500 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; Baltimore, MD; and Wilmington, DE. Womble Carlyle is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally.