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2026 South Carolina Legal Elite Recognizes 24 Womble Attorneys
Aug 11 2026
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Greenville Business Magazine has named 24 Womble Bond Dickinson attorneys to the 2026 South Carolina Legal Elite, the annual listing of the state's top lawyers as determined by peer vote. The honorees span the practice areas that shape business and life across the state — from business litigation and construction to corporate transactions, intellectual property, real estate, environmental, employment, and estate planning — and reach across the Upstate, Midlands, and Coastal regions.
The firm's 2026 South Carolina Legal Elite honorees are:
Midlands Region
- Jon "Will" Campbell, Jr. (Commercial Real Estate)
- Todd Carroll (Appellate)
- Kevin A. Hall (Business Litigation)
Upstate Region
- Michael Bogle (Environmental)
- Amy H. Clayton (Commercial Real Estate)
- Andy Coburn* (Corporate – Business Organizations)
- Kean J. DeCarlo (Intellectual Property and Innovation)
- Jamie J. Francis, III (Corporate – Mergers & Acquisitions)
- Allison Ko (Intellectual Property and Innovation)
- Shelton Sterling Laney III (Business Litigation)
- W. Lindsay Smith (Commercial Real Estate)
- Jason Wyman (Foreclosure)
Coastal Region
- Laurel Blair* (Estate and Trust – Litigation)
- Ryan D. Ellard (Business Litigation)
- F. Cordes Ford IV (Construction)
- C. Allen Gibson Jr. (Construction)
- Greg Horton (Business Litigation; Employment – Defendant)
- Ashley Kutz Kelley (Employment – Defendant)
- Dana Lang (Construction)
- Whit McGreevy (Economic Development)
- Andrea McDonald* (Business Litigation)
- Cynthia Spieth Morton* (Commercial Real Estate)
- Anne Kelley Russell (Estate and Trust – Planning; Tax and Estate Planning)
- Thomas Zamadics Jr. (Estate and Trust – Planning; Tax and Estate Planning)
*Named a Top Vote Recipient, a distinction reserved for the attorneys who received the highest number of peer votes in their practice area within their region.
Legal Elite is the only regional awards program in South Carolina open to every attorney in the state. Honorees are selected entirely through peer voting: attorneys may nominate colleagues from their own firm only if they submit an equal number of nominations for attorneys outside their firm, and self-nominations are not permitted. Placement on the list cannot be purchased.
