All firms · #641 of 5,678 by volume

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

67 PERM cases in DOL's current disclosure window, 63 certified and 2 denied. Filed from North Carolina. Firm name as filed.

This rate is level with the field

Computed over 65 decided cases. The 95% interval runs up to a 10.5% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records, so this record can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Cases

#641 of 5,678

Certified

2 denied

Approval

96.9%

field 96.8%

Median wage

—

not on file

Median days

487

18 slower than the field

Fig 01 Position in the field 1,127 firms with 30+ decided

Approval rate

96.9%ahead of 34%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

487 daysahead of 12%

356d 1059d

Each bar counts firms at that value. Firms with fewer than 30 decided cases are left out of the population rather than plotted, because a rate over a handful of cases lands wherever the handful landed. The line marks this one. Approval rates pile up against 100%, so read the ties in the label rather than the position of the line. DOL PERM disclosure files

The practice, in their own filings

Who they file for, what the jobs are, and where the work sits. All of it is the employer, occupation and worksite named on their own applications.

Who they file for

The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 49 of 67 filings, 73% of the total.

What the jobs are

Industrial Engineers

SOC 17-2112.00 · 7 filings, 10% of everything they file

Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 37-2011.007
Manufacturing Engineers 17-2112.037
Software Developers 15-1252.006
Accountants and Auditors 13-2011.004
Project Management Specialists 13-1082.003

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 34 of 67 cases between them. The occupation on a PERM is the SOC code on the form, which is the job as DOL classifies it rather than the job title on the offer. DOL still accepts two SOC vintages, so one job can appear twice under two codes; the code is printed for exactly that reason.

Where the jobs are

South Carolina 26
North Carolina 12
Maryland 7
District of Columbia 6
California 4
Texas 4

The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. These 6 states cover 59 of 67 filings.

Against the firms ranked nearest

The 120 firms ranked nearest this one filed between 61 and 74 cases. Their median wait is 469 days, and this one sits 18 days behind that. No approval rate is given for the band. A band is a slice of the volume ranking rather than a population picked for having enough decided cases, so a band rate would be solid at the top of the list and noise at the bottom, under one heading.

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 641 of 5,678 by volume: 640 filed at least as many cases, and 5,037 filed no more.

Just above: KHAVINSON AND ASSOCIATES P.C. 67 cases
Just below: LAW OFFICE OF IFTEKHAR UL HAQ 67 cases

Other North Carolina firms at this volume

Practices filing from North Carolina at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. State is the address on the filing, so a national firm appears under whichever office signed the form.

What this rank counts, and what it doesn't

DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one firm can appear under several. 1 other spelling of this name was folded into this page and its cases are counted here. The entry below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same firm; some are a different one. Rank #641 counts this page's cases only.

Womble Bond Dickinson 5 filings

5 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.

What these numbers don't say

The wage is the job, not the payer: The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles their clients file. A software developer and a poultry cutter are different numbers wherever they are filed, so this figure is not plotted against the field and no percentile is given for it: that comparison would rank occupation mix and call it pay. Wages by occupation are on the wages page.
Nothing here is waiting: Every row in DOL's disclosure files carries a decision date, so a case still in the queue is in none of these counts. The live tracker that does see pending cases records the employer on each one and not the firm, so a firm's current queue cannot be broken out at all. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
The approval rate barely separates firms: Across every firm with enough decided cases to carry a rate the median is above 99%, and hundreds have no denials at all. Placing near the top of that axis mostly means being level with the rest of it.
None of this measures the advice: It measures filings that DOL approved or denied. Whether the case was worth filing, what it cost, and how the firm handled an audit aren’t in these files.
A median over 65 decided cases: DOL works one national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so this says when the firm's cases were filed at least as much as anything about the firm. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.

The window these figures cover

DOL's FY2026 Q3 and FY2025 Q4 and New Form FY2024 Q4 and FY2024 Q4 PERM disclosure files, unioned and de-duplicated by case number: 373,939 cases. Every case in them carries a decision, so nothing here counts what’s still pending. How each figure is built, and what it can and can't answer, is set out in the methodology.

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Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

Employers and firms: Derived from the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest