Eight Womble Carlyle Attorneys in Greenville Ranked Among The Best Lawyers in America for 2011
August 12, 2010
GREENVILLE, SC – August 11, 2010 – Womble Carlyle placed eight Greenville attorneys on Woodward/White Inc.’s The Best Lawyers in America rankings for 2011. Firm-wide, 100 Womble Carlyle lawyers were honored as Best Lawyers.
The following is a list of the Womble Carlyle attorneys who rank among the country’s best. 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, while those marked with (25) have been on the Best Lawyers list for at least 25 years:
Greenville
Larry D. Estridge (20), Real Estate Law
R. Howard Grubbs (10), Environmental Law
D. Allen Grumbine, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, Corporate Law
Sandra Louise Weikel Miller, Health Care Law
Samuel W. Outten, Commercial Litigation
W. Lindsay Smith (10), Real Estate Law
Elizabeth O. Temple, Securities Law
Rory D. Whelehan, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
The 2010 edition is the seventeenth edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey in which thousands of top leading attorneys throughout the country cast votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties. The current edition is based on more than 1.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
Womble Carlyle – Innovators at Law
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 500 attorneys in eleven offices: Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Baltimore, MD; and Wilmington, DE.
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.
