134 Womble Carlyle Attorneys Ranked Among The Best Lawyers in America 2013
September 4, 2012
CHARLESTON, SC – September 4, 2012 – Womble Carlyle placed 134 attorneys on the 2013 Woodward/White Inc.’s The Best Lawyers in America rankings, a new record for the firm. Last year, 125 Womble Carlyle lawyers made the list.
The following is a list of the twenty-four Womble Carlyle attorneys in the Charleston, SC office who rank among the country’s best. Attorneys marked with an asterisk (*) are new to the Best Lawyers list for 2013. 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, while those marked with (25) have been on the Best Lawyers list for at least 25 years:
Charleston
J. Marshall Allen, Health Care Law
Charles J. Baker III, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Construction Litigation
*Laurel R.S. Blair, Trusts & Estates Litigation
William C. Cleveland III, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, Securities Litigation, Mediation
David M. Collins, Admiralty & Maritime Law
David H. Crawford, Real Estate Law
Morris A. Ellison (10), Commercial Litigation, Banking & Finance Litigation, Real Estate Law
W. Foster Gaillard (10), Real Estate Law
C. Allen Gibson Jr. (10), Construction Law, Construction Litigation
Henry E. Grimball, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation (Defendants)
Thomas L. Harper Jr., Real Estate Litigation, Real Estate Law
Julius H. Hines, Admiralty & Maritime Law
Greg Horton, Product Liability Litigation (Defendants)
Sean D. Houseal, Environmental Litigation
John J. Kerr, First Amendment Law, First Amendment Litigation, Media Law
David B. McCormack, Arbitration, Employment Law (Management), Labor & Employment Litigation
*Cynthia Spieth Morton, Real Estate Law
James D. Myrick, Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation (Defendants)
Gordon D. Schreck (20), Admiralty & Maritime Law
Kenneth F. Smith, Trusts & Estates, Tax Law
Henry B. Smythe, Jr. (10), Personal Injury Litigation (Defendants)
Susan M. Smythe (20), Corporate Law, Real Estate Law
Charles P. Summerall IV, Bankruptcy & Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law, Bankruptcy Litigation
David S. Yandle, Employment Law (Management), Labor Law (Management), Labor & Employment Litigation
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 serves clients nationally and globally with more than 550 attorneys in fourteen offices: Atlanta; Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, S.C.; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; Silicon Valley, Calif., 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.
