Press Release
Jim Myrick-Led Business Litigation Committee Earns ABA Annual Award
August 22, 2011
Public Relations contact: Bruce Buchanan, (336) 728-7027
CHARLESTON, S.C.—The American Bar Association has honored a professional committee chaired by Womble Carlyle attorney Jim Myrick.
The Business Litigation Committee of the ABA’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section won the 2011 Leadership Involvement Award. This award is presented to a Committee that has demonstrated outstanding leadership within the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. Award winners are recognized for providing advice, guidance and professional development opportunities. Another factor is the involvement of the Committee’s members in leadership roles in other Section Standing Committees, Task Forces and/or Council.
Myrick chaired the Business Litigation Committee in 2010-11. The Business Litigation Committee is one of 32 committees within the section and includes nearly 1,400 total members.
Jim Myrick has more than 20 years of experience as a business litigator. Myrick has mediated, arbitrated and tried cases in the areas of personal injury (defense and plaintiff), commercial disputes, products liability and environmental permits. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Myrick represents major national and regional companies as well as individuals and minority business interests. He practices in Womble Carlyle’s Charleston, S.C., office.
About Womble Carlyle
Womble Carlyle is a full-service business law firm with a focus on innovative solutions to client needs. The firm supports the Association of Corporate Counsel in the ACC Value Challenge, which seeks to better align legal services with the needs of corporate clients.
The firm is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally, with more than 550 attorneys in twelve offices: Atlanta; Charleston and Greenville, S.C.; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; Washington, D.C.; Tysons Corner, Va.; Baltimore; and Wilmington, Del.
In the community, the firm is the first law firm to receive the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award as well as the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award.
Womble Carlyle is a full-service business law firm with a focus on innovative solutions to client needs. The firm supports the Association of Corporate Counsel in the ACC Value Challenge, which seeks to better align legal services with the needs of corporate clients.
The firm is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally, with more than 550 attorneys in twelve offices: Atlanta; Charleston and Greenville, S.C.; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; Washington, D.C.; Tysons Corner, Va.; Baltimore; and Wilmington, Del.
In the community, the firm is the first law firm to receive the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Leadership Award as well as the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award.
