GREENSBORO, NC – Business North Carolina released its annual Legal Elite list this month and four Womble Bond Dickinson attorneys are included. To create the list each year, the magazine polls every member of the NC State Bar living in the state with one question: “Of the Tar Heel lawyers whose work you have observed firsthand, whom would you rate among the current best in these categories?”
Womble Bond Dickinson winners of Business North Carolina’s 2020 Legal Elite are:
APPELLATE
- Jim Cooney (Charlotte)
ENVIRONMENTAL
- Susan H. Cooper (Charlotte)
TAX/ESTATE PLANNING
- Edward W. Griggs (Charlotte/Winston-Salem)
- Kim Stogner (Winston-Salem)

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