Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC is a full-service law firmproviding legal counsel to businesses in the areas of bankruptcy,corporate and securities, intellectual property, banking, finance andproperty, employee benefits, labor, employment, litigation, real estate, taxand trusts and estates matters. Our firm has offices in Atlanta, Charlotte,Raleigh, Research Triangle Park and Winston-Salem. But our practiceextends beyond North Carolina and Georgia state lines and saturates theSoutheast. Our lawyers handle cases throughout the United States andacross international waters. In addition to being named by the NationalLaw Journal as the fastest growing of the nation's top 250 law firms in1996, Womble Carlyle is the largest law firm originating in North Carolina. Womble Carlyle lawyers mean business.