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Edward Griggs, right, accepts award from Dan McLawhorn and Janet Ward Black.

Edward W. Griggs was honored today as the North Carolina Bar Association’s 2007 CLE Volunteer of the Year. Griggs practices law in the Winston-Salem offices of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice.

Presentation of the award took place at the winter meetings of the NCBA Board of Governors and the NCBA Foundation Board of Directors at the N.C. Bar Center.

NCBA President Janet Ward Black and Dan McLawhorn who chairs the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the NCBA Foundation presented the award.

William Womble, left, congratulates CLE Volunteer of the Year Edward Griggs.

Womble Carlyle senior partner William F. Womble, a past president of the NCBA, attended the ceremony.

Griggs is a member of the NCBA’s Estate Planning & Fiduciary Law Section and has contributed significantly to its CLE activities. In 2007, he served as the planner for the Basics of Estate Administration CLE which attracted 150 attendees.

Griggs has also served as the co-planner and lead planner for the section’s previous two annual meetings, each of which attracted over 300 attendees.

“His contributions,” McLawhorn noted, “should be recognized as those of an exceptional volunteer program planner whose commitment to CLE ensures quality programming for our members.”

Griggs hails from Cheraw, S.C. He is a 2000 graduate of Wake Forest University and received his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2003.