Three Ward and Smith Attorneys Named 2017 “Lawyers of the Year” by Best Lawyers®

Best Lawyers®, the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named three Ward and Smith attorneys as 2017 “Lawyer of the Year.”  Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each North Carolina metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Ward and Smith attorneys recognized as 2017 Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” are:

• William Joseph Austin, Jr. – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers – Raleigh
• Knox Proctor V – Corporate Law – Wilmington
• Kenneth R. Wooten – Litigation – Construction – Wilmington

Knox and Ken primarily practice from Ward and Smith’s New Bern office.  Best Lawyers® includes New Bern in the Wilmington metropolitan area.  Accordingly, they were recognized as a “Lawyer of the Year” for the Wilmington metropolitan area.