Womble Carlyle Earns 16 Tier One Rankings for Charleston Market in “Best Law Firms” Report

November 17, 2011

CHARLESTON, SC – November 15, 2011 – U.S. News & World Report and The Best Lawyers in America have ranked Womble Carlyle as a Tier One law firm in 16 distinct practice areas in the second annual “Best Law Firms” ratings.

Those practice areas are:

Admiralty & Maritime Law
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Commercial Litigation
Construction Law
Corporate Law
Employment Law – Management
Environmental Law
Health Care Law
Insurance Law
Litigation – Banking & Finance
Litigation – Bankruptcy
Litigation – Construction
Litigation – Labor & Employment
Litigation – Real Estate
Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Real Estate Law

In all, Womble Carlyle was ranked as a Tier One firm in 90+ market-specific practice areas across the firm’s Southeast and Mid-Atlantic footprint.

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 thirteen offices: Atlanta; Charleston 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.