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Mr. Ward is a litigation partner with substantial arbitration and trial experience who relies on that experience to deliver practical advice and cost-effective lawyering. His litigation practice is largely oriented toward real estate, including landlord-tenant disputes, disputes over purchase and sale contracts, broker disputes, construction disputes, partnership dissolutions, secured transactions, and claims against fiduciaries involving real estate assets. He has represented property owners and public entities in land use disputes. Mr. Ward also counsels many of the Firm’s corporate and investment adviser clients, with an eye toward resolving disputes, if possible, without the expense of litigation or by handling litigation to achieve client goals efficiently.
Mr. Ward also handles several types of disputes faced by growing businesses, such as conflicts among partners or shareholders, trade secret disputes, wrongful termination claims and disputes arising out of mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Ward’s clients include real estate investment and management companies, developers, financial institutions and manufacturers.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Ward’s professional affiliations include the American Bar Association and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.
EDUCATION
A 1992 graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, Mr. Ward was Articles Editor of Ecology Law Quarterly. He also authored The Spirits Will Leave: Preventing the Desecration and Destruction of Native American Sacred Sites on Federal Land, 19 Ecology Law Quarterly 795 (1993), which won the 1992 Ellis J. Harmon Environmental Writing prize. Mr. Ward also received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in history and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Ward served in the United States Army as a field artillery officer.
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