WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WCSR.com once again has been recognized as the best legal Web site in the Carolinas, coming out on top in a field of more than 140 candidates. Womble Carlyle and WCSR.com won "Best in Contest," the top overall honor, in the Lawyer's Weekly annual "Best Law Firm Web Site 2008" competition. This is the second consecutive overall win for WCSR.com. The firm also won "First Place, Large Law Firm Category" for both North Carolina and South Carolina. The particular category is for firms with more than 26 attorneys. Womble Carlyle has won First Place for large law firms each of the past three years in the North Carolina competition and two of the last three years in South Carolina. The winners will be featured in an upcoming issue of both the North Carolina and South Carolina editions of the newspaper. "Our web site is often someone's initial contact with Womble Carlyle, so we work very hard to have it make the best possible first impression for our firm," said Maury Tepper, the firm's Chairman of the Client Development Committee. "We have incorporated such features as video, audio podcasts and blogs into WCSR.com and will continue to make innovation a focus as we improve the Web site in the future." "It is satisfying to know that we are able to convey that marketing objective to independent experts and, more importantly, viewers of the web site," said Aden Dauchess, Internet Marketing Manager at Womble Carlyle. Three independent judges, each with a background in communications, graded more than 140 Web sites. The judges wrote of WCSR.com, "From the first moment a visitor steps on to the site, it's clear that this firm understands the power of online communication....While many of the other sites in the competition had strong design elements, or clear navigation, or nifty bells and whistles, Womble Carlyle was the site that clearly excelled in all areas, integrating form with function and using technology not just for its own sake, but for the benefit of the site's audience." The judges also had plenty of doggone good things to say about Winston, the firm's legally-minded canine mascot. "Of course, what would the site be without its mascot, Winston? Many sites use animation to draw a user's attention, but this animation was incredibly well done, is mindful of a user's bandwidth and doesn't interfere with the primary task of seeking and acquiring information from the WCSR site," they said. The Lawyer's Weekly award is just the latest in a series of honors WCSR.com has received in recent years. In September 2007, WCSR.com was named the winner of the "Best Legal Website WebAward" in a national contest sponsored by the Web Marketing Association (WMA). In 2005, the WMA awarded the firm its "Outstanding Website WebAward" for Web site design and development. Womble Carlyle - Innovators at Law A full-service business law firm, Womble Carlyle ranks among AmLaw's 100 leading firms in the country and is a top law firm for companies doing business in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic states. Founded in 1876, Womble Carlyle operates in six states and the District of Columbia with nearly 550 attorneys in eleven offices located in Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, and Winston-Salem, NC; Washington, DC; Tysons Corner, VA; Wilmington, DE; and Baltimore, MD. Womble Carlyle is located in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, and serves clients nationally and globally. DATASOURCE: Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice CONTACT: Russell N. Thomas of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, +1-202-857-4517, +1-443-865-3749, Web Site: http://www.wcsr.com/

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