[8] In January 2016, Womble Carlyle named Betty Temple chairwoman and CEO, and she became one of only a handful of women to sit at the helm of a large national law firm.

[10] As part of Womble Carlyle Bond Dickinson, Temple is now United States CEO and Co-Chair with UK Managing Partner, Paul Stewart (appointed in February 2022).

[11] Womble Bond Dickinson has continued to expand via mergers, including with Lewis Roca in September 2024 which created a firm with 1300 legal staff and a turnover of $742 million.

In 2018 they were accused of giving poor advice to a businessman, Mr Day, of not telling him he could be tried summarily in a magistrates court for an offence he had committed, rather then being tried on indictment where the penalties were £450,000 instead of £20,000.

[22] Stephen Dilley, a partner with Womble Bond Dickinson, has been criticised for his role in the UK Post Office Scandal including by the professional magazine, The Lawyer.

[23] Within a year of owning his sub post office in East Yorkshire, the then subpostmaster noticed glitches in the computer system that eventually showed around £25,000 in discrepancies.

[29] According to The Law Society Gazette, Dilley explained his failure to disclose thousands of issues raised about the Horizon IT system was out of concern he would be 'swamped' by disclosure; it seemed "onerous".

It's just justice..."[32] Andrew Parsons, another partner at the firm, was also revealed to have advised the Post Office to destroy relevant documents so they could not be disclosed and also to not minute meetings so that no record would be kept of them.

When the emails in which this advice was given initially came to light, Parsons blamed a junior trainee for writing them, and denied ever having advised failing to minute meetings.