Womble Carlyle placed 17 attorneys in the firm's Atlanta office on the 2017 Woodward/White Inc.’s The Best Lawyers in America rankings. Firm-wide, Womble Carlyle placed 186 attorneys on the 2017 Best Lawyers list:

Robert R. Ambler, Jr., Commercial Litigation

Elizabeth J. Bondurant, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Insurance Law, Litigation—ERISA

R. Dal Burton, Product Liability Litigation (Defendants)

Tracy M. Field, Health Care Law

Joseph Foltz, Real Estate Law

Jill Girardeau, Health Care Law

Steven D. Kerr, Patent Law

Jimmy F. Kirkland, Energy Regulatory Law, Environmental Law

Louis T. Isaf, Patent Law

G. William Long III, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment Litigation

Chip Presten, Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law

William M. Ragland, Jr., Commercial Litigation, Copyright Law (Atlanta Lawyer of the Year), Banking & Finance Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation, Patent Law, Patent Litigation, Technology Law, Intellectual Property Litigation, Trade Secrets Law, Trademark Litigation

G. Leighton Stradtman, Banking & Finance Law

Michael J. Sullivan, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation (Defendants), Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions (Defendants)

James F. Vaughan, Intellectual Property Litigation, Patent Litigation, Patent Law, Trademark Law

Kirk W. Watkins, Intellectual Property Litigation, International Arbitration—Commercial

Jason H. Watson, Bankruptcy & Creditor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law