Press Release

Inaugural Award Honors Top Firms in Work-Life Balance and Women

WINSTON-SALEM-- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC today announced it has been named as one of the top "Best Law Firms for Women" by Working Mother magazine and Flex Time Lawyers LLC. A new initiative from the leading advocates for work-life balance and women-friendly policies, Best Law Firms for Women honored 50 winning firms for their commitment to the retention and advancement of female talent.

Working Mother magazine selected law firms based on survey data collected earlier this year by Flex-Time Lawyers LLC and Working Mother Media. For this inaugural survey, Working Mother measured firms on a variety of factors, including representation of women in leadership positions, compensation and benefits, parental leave, childcare, flexibility options, treatment of women staff as well as women lawyers, and programs to help train, retain and advance women.

"We are honored to be recognized for this award by Working Mother magazine," said Gloria Agard, Womble Carlyle's Director of Diversity and Workplace Initiatives. "Womble Carlyle strives to create a healthy work/life balance for all of its attorneys and employees and we are proud to be set apart in this area."

Womble Carlyle will be profiled in the August/September issue of Working Mother magazine, and the firm will be honored at a special awards event on September 24, 2007.

"Since its founding, Working Mother magazine has been the champion of progressive, women-friendly changes in the workplace," said Carol Evans, CEO, Working Mother Media. "Every year we see substantive advances in companies' policies across the country, and we are so excited to be able to pair with Flex-Time Lawyers to celebrate change in a field that has historically struggled to support women and their life choices. I commend Womble Carlyle for taking the lead for women lawyers."

About Womble Carlyle
A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle is ranked among the AmLaw 100, American Lawyer magazine's annual list of the country's leading law firms, and is a top law firm for companies doing business in the South Atlantic 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 about 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 South Atlantic and mid-Atlantic regions, and draws its client base from across the United States.

About Working Mother
Founded in 1979, Working Mother magazine reaches nearly 3 million readers and is the only national magazine for career mothers. Its 21-year signature initiative, Working Mother 100 Best Companies, is the most important benchmark for work/life practices in corporate America. The publication also releases the annual list of the Best Companies for Multicultural Women in the June issue. Working Mother is published by Working Mother Media (WMM), which also owns the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), NAFE Magazine, the annual 100 Best Companies WorkLife Congress, as well as the Best Companies for Multicultural Women Conference and regional Town Halls. In 2006, WMM acquired Diversity Best Practices and the Business Women’s Network, making Working Mother Media the largest media company in the country focused on diversity and the advancement of women. For more information, please visit www.workingmother.com.

About Flex-Time Lawyers LLC
Flex-Time Lawyers LLC® is a national consulting firm advising lawyers, law firms, bar associations, law schools and corporations on work/life balance, business development, women's initiatives, re-entry of professionals and the retention and advancement of women. It hosts a membership organization with chapters in New York and Philadelphia, offering networking opportunities, support, career guidance, education and information sharing to effect change. Flex-Time Lawyers LLC is a resource to the press and legal community at large on work/life balance and women's issues and also provides recruiting services. It has been covered extensively in the national and legal press, including The New York Times, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, National Public Radio, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, and numerous others. For more information, please visit www.flextimelawyers.com.