WCS&R

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice (Law firm)

In January 2008, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blackwater" title="Blackwater" class="mw-redirect">Blackwater</a> hired Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, "as its D.C. representative for contracting and acquisition issues," reported O'Dwyer's PR Daily. The firm will serve as the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Private_military_company" title="Private military company" class="mw-redirect">private military company</a>'s "D.C. representative for contracting and acquisition issues." Firm lobbyists on the Blackwater account include Jimmy Broughton, who was former Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jesse_Helms" title="Jesse Helms">Jesse Helms</a>'s chief of staff; Mark Harkins, who worked for Representative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brad_Miller" title="Brad Miller">Brad Miller</a>; and Kevin Jones, who served as a legislative assistant to former Treasury Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lloyd_Bentsen" title="Lloyd Bentsen">Lloyd Bentsen</a>.. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Womble,Carlyle,Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Womble,Carlyle,Sandridge_%26_Rice#SourceWatch_resources">1 SourceWatch resources</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blackwater_USA" title="Blackwater USA" class="mw-redirect">Blackwater USA</a></li>

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<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Womble,Carlyle,Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> "<a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0121blackwater.html" class="external text" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0121blackwater.html" rel="nofollow">Blackwater Bolsters Lobby Team</a>," O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), January 21, 2008.</li>

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Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, established in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston-Salem" title="Winston-Salem" class="mw-redirect">Winston-Salem</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> in 1876, is one of the largest business law firms in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_region" title="Mid-Atlantic region" class="mw-redirect">mid-Atlantic</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">Southeast</a> regions of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. Currently, Womble Carlyle has eleven offices: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston-Salem" title="Winston-Salem" class="mw-redirect">Winston-Salem</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte,North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,NC" title="Greensboro, NC" class="mw-redirect">Greensboro</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park" title="Research Triangle Park">Research Triangle Park</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh,NC" title="Raleigh, NC" class="mw-redirect">Raleigh</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>; and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta,Georgia" title="Atlanta, Georgia" class="mw-redirect">Atlanta, Georgia</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore,Maryland" title="Baltimore, Maryland" class="mw-redirect">Baltimore, Maryland</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville, South Carolina</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tysons_Corner,Virginia" title="Tysons Corner, Virginia">Tysons Corner, Virginia</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,DC" title="Washington, DC" class="mw-redirect">Washington, DC</a>; and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington,_Delaware" title="Wilmington, Delaware">Wilmington, Delaware</a>. The firm’s growth has matched the economic growth and evolution of North Carolina and the mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.

As of 2003, the firm was the largest in North Carolina.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_note-barbarians-2">[3]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#Today">2 Today</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#Honors_and_awards">3 Honors and awards</a></li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>] History</h2>

The firm traces its history to 1876, when Cyrus Watson and W.B. Glenn formed a partnership in Winston, North Carolina, under the name Watson & Glenn.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_note-fundinguniverse-3">[4]</a>

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<li>In 1885, the firm name changed to Glenn & Glenn</li>

<li>In 1891, the firm name changed to Glenn & Manley</li>

<li>In 1898, the firm name changed to Glenn, Manley & Hendren</li>

<li>In 1905, the firm name changed to Manly & Hendren</li>

<li>In 1911, the firm name changed to Manly, Hendren & Womble</li>

<li>In 1942, the firm name changed to Womble, Carlyle, Martin & Sandridge</li>

<li>In 1954, the firm name changed to Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice</li>

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irving_E.Carlyle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Irving E. Carlyle (page does not exist)">Irving E. Carlyle</a> was a long-time resident of Winston-Salem, N.C. He was a trustee of Wake Forest University and coached the men's basketball team in its earliest years. Carlyle is one of the most notable civil rights attorneys in North Carolina history. Womble Carlyle was able to grow into one of the most successful law firms in North Carolina due to its proximity in Winston-Salem to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Tobacco_Company" title="R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company" class="mw-redirect">R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company</a>, which used Womble Carlyle for its legal services.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_note-barbarians-2">[3]</a>

Womble Carlyle began expanding outside Winston-Salem in the 1980s by establishing an office in Raleigh in 1982 and adding an office in Charlotte in 1984.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_note-fundinguniverse-3">[4]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_note-WChistory-4">[5]</a> The 1990s were marked by the firm’s early commitment to technology and further expansion into new cities by opening new offices and also merging with other law firms. By the end of the 1990s, Womble Carlyle had opened its Atlanta, Research Triangle Park, Washington D.C. and Greenville, South Carolina offices. The firm’s commitment to technology was recognized in 1999 when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Herring%28magazine%29" title="Red Herring (magazine)">Red Herring</a> (a weekly magazine focused on the business of funding, building, and taking new technologies to market), recognized Womble Carlyle as one of the most progressive law firms in the country due to its commitment to technology. Since 2000, the firm added offices in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tysons_Corner,Virginia" title="Tysons Corner, Virginia">Tysons Corner</a>, Greensboro, Wilmington and Baltimore.

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Womble Carlyle now has more than 500 lawyers and 1200 staff located in eleven offices. Its attorneys and professionals provide a full range of legal services to regional, national and international businesses and other clients in a wide range of industries. Lawyers at Womble Carlyle include former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Governor" title="North Carolina Governor" class="mw-redirect">North Carolina Governor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hunt" title="Jim Hunt">Jim Hunt</a>, former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Maryland" title="Governor of Maryland">Governor of Maryland</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ehrlich" title="Bob Ehrlich" class="mw-redirect">Bob Ehrlich</a> and former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Supreme_Court" title="North Carolina Supreme Court">North Carolina Supreme Court</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice" title="Chief Justice">Chief Justice</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burley_Mitchell" title="Burley Mitchell">Burley Mitchell</a>.

Womble Carlyle is a member of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Mundi" title="Lex Mundi">Lex Mundi</a>, a global organization of independent law firms.

In December 2008 the firm informed its staff that it would freeze attorney <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary" title="Salary">salaries</a> for the first half of 2009,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_note-Abovethelaw-5">[6]</a> and in April 2009 it was reported that salaries for associate attorneys and paralegal staff were being cut an average of 10 percent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_note-6">[7]</a> Observers speculated that the firm's legal business had declined due to heavy losses in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank" title="Bank">banking</a> industry concentrated in Charlotte.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_note-Abovethelaw-5">[6]</a>

Effective April 30, 2011, Womble Carlyle merged with Buist Moore Smythe McGee, P.A., a 44-lawyer Charleston, South Carolina law firm, creating the largest law firm in both North and South Carolina. Buist Moore Smythe McGee P.A. lawyers are known for their advocacy on behalf of corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and other business associations in all aspects of commercial activity.

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<li>2003 recipient of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall_Scholarship_Fund" title="Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund" class="mw-redirect">Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund</a>'s Corporate Leadership Award in recognition of the firm's commitment to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall_Scholarship_Fund" title="Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund" class="mw-redirect">Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund</a>, its 45 member institutions and the students educated at those schools.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_note-WChistory-4">[5]</a></li>

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<li>Womble Carlyle is included in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmLaw_100_Survey" title="AmLaw 100 Survey" class="mw-redirect">AmLaw 100 Survey</a> and is ranked by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Lawyer" title="The American Lawyer">The American Lawyer</a> as being among the 100 leading firms in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and was ranked number 67 in the 2005 survey.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_note-7">[8]</a></li>

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<li>Womble Carlyle is included as one of the 300 largest US law firms in the listing prepared by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LawPeriscope" title="LawPeriscope">LawPeriscope</a>.</li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Representative clients">edit</a>] Representative clients</h2>

Womble Carlyle represents many nationally and internationally known corporations, businesses and foundations in industries that include manufacturing, transportation and energy, financial services, insurance, health care, education and technology including:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_note-8">[9]</a>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_World_Industries" title="Armstrong World Industries">Armstrong World Industries</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America" title="Bank of America">Bank of America</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer" title="Bayer">Bayer</a> CropScience</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Worldwide" title="Blackwater Worldwide">Blackwater Worldwide</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Childress_Klein_Properties&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Childress Klein Properties (page does not exist)">Childress Klein Properties</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Collins%26_Aikman_Floorcoverings,Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings, Inc. (page does not exist)">Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings, Inc.</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaimlerChrysler" title="DaimlerChrysler" class="mw-redirect">DaimlerChrysler</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlaxoSmithKline" title="GlaxoSmithKline">GlaxoSmithKline</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson-Pilot" title="Jefferson-Pilot" class="mw-redirect">Jefferson-Pilot</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mustafar_Enterprises&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mustafar Enterprises (page does not exist)">Mustafar Enterprises</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis" title="Novartis">Novartis</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Built_Buses,_Inc." title="Thomas Built Buses, Inc." class="mw-redirect">Thomas Built Buses, Inc.</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomasville_Furniture_Industries,_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomasville Furniture Industries, Inc. (page does not exist)">Thomasville Furniture Industries, Inc.</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNC_Hospitals" title="UNC Hospitals" class="mw-redirect">UNC Hospitals</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachovia_Bank" title="Wachovia Bank" class="mw-redirect">Wachovia Bank</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Forest_University" title="Wake Forest University">Wake Forest University</a></li>

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Womble Carlyle also has an active <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_bono" title="Pro bono">pro bono</a> practice which has included high-profile cases such as the defense of death-row inmate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gell" title="Alan Gell">Alan Gell</a> by Womble Carlyle lawyer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_P.Cooney,III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James P. Cooney, III (page does not exist)">James P. Cooney, III</a>.

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>] References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_ref-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.wcsr.com/firm" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Firm overview</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_ref-1">^</a> <a href="http://www.wcsr.com/firm/wcsr-leadership" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Firm management</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-barbarians-2">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_ref-barbarians_2-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_ref-barbarians_2-1">b</a> Burrough, Bryan (2003). <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=8rVQ6wKWdaYC" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Barbarians at the Gate</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a>. p. 40.</li>

<li id="cite_note-fundinguniverse-3">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_ref-fundinguniverse_3-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_ref-fundinguniverse_3-1">b</a> <a href="http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Womble-Carlyle-Sandridge-amp;-Rice-PLLC-Company-History.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC</a>, FundingUniverse.com website, accessed January 24, 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-WChistory-4">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_ref-WChistory_4-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_ref-WChistory_4-1">b</a> <a href="http://www.wcsr.com/firm/history-of-womble-carlyle" class="external text" rel="nofollow">History of Womble Carlyle</a>, Womble Carlyle website, accessed January 24, 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-Abovethelaw-5">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_ref-Abovethelaw_5-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge%26_Rice#cite_ref-Abovethelaw_5-1">b</a> <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/2008/12/nationwide_pay_freeze_watch_wo.php" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Nationwide Pay Freeze Watch: Womble Carlyle Bows to Southeast Economy</a>, Above the Law, December 12, 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_ref-6">^</a> Martha Neil, <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/biglaw_has_changed_forever_says_womble_firm_cutting_pay_10_percent/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">BigLaw ‘Has Changed Forever,’ Says Womble Carlyle, Cutting Pay 10 Percent</a>, ABA Journal, April 13, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_ref-7">^</a> <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1131542411525" class="external text" rel="nofollow">National Law Journal 250</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womble_Carlyle_Sandridge_%26_Rice#cite_ref-8">^</a> <a href="http://www.wcsr.com/firm/firm-representative-clients" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Representative Clients</a>, Womble Carlyle website, accessed January 24, 2010</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.bestlawyers.com/search/firmProfile.asp?firm_ID=18127" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Profile in Best Lawyers</a></li>

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