Eleven Womble Carlyle attorneys have been named by Business North Carolina Magazine to the 2011 North Carolina Legal Elite—the annual listing of the state's top lawyers.

Statewide, 598 lawyers — fewer than 3% of the total — were picked by their peers in 14 mostly business-related categories. Notices were sent to more than 20,000 active members of the North Carolina State Bar. Voters could not pick themselves, and they could select partners and associates only if they also selected lawyers outside the firm in the same categories.

The Womble Carlyle lawyers named to the list are below:

Charlotte

Cy Johnson, Business

Rob Wilder, Litigation

Raleigh

Gene Jones, Business and Young Guns

Press Millen, Antitrust

Liz Riley, Construction

Todd Sullivan, Employment

Winston-Salem

Jean Adams, Tax/Estate Planning

Lori Hinnant, Environmental

John Morrow, Intellectual Property

George Ragland, Tax/Estate Planning

Kim Stogner, Tax/Estate Planning

In addition, four other Womble Carlyle attorneys—Alfred Adams, Jim Cooney, Mark Horoschak and Betty Quick—are members of the North Carolina Legal Elite Hall of Fame, meaning they are no longer eligible for the year-to-year rankings.