A President’s Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Ward graduated with Highest Honor in Electrical Engineering in 1987. Then he spent a year in Washington D.C. working on Senator Sam Nunn’s staff on Capitol Hill before entering Columbia Law School. At Columbia, Ward was an editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
After graduation, Ward practiced in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate and securities law at the law firms of King & Spalding and Alston & Bird, ultimately becoming a partner at the firm of Alston & Bird.
Ward left large law firm life to go in-house as general counsel of both large and small companies. In those positions he was responsible for the full range of legal affairs for his client companies and was confidante and advisor to the top executives and boards of directors. With this in-house experience he gained the perspective of a business person from the inside and learned what CEOs want and need in their company lawyer.
In his private law practice, Ward enjoys drawing upon his mix of major law firm, corporate in-house and hands-on small business experience to provide counsel and assistance to his clients.
Ward met his wife, Mary Catherine, when they both worked on the staff of Senator Sam Nunn on Capitol Hill. They have two teenage sons, a teenage daughter, a 175-lb. English Mastiff and a rescue mixed-breed. Ward enjoys single-malt Scotches and ALTA tennis. He also enjoys reading about physics and cosmology. When Ward was in high school he won a trip to the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Washington DC with his paper suggesting changes in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and he wrote his senior term paper on how the branch of mathematics called Group Theory is manifested in Rubik’s Cube. Mary Catherine, on the other hand, reads cooking and celebrity magazines when she is not playing mixed doubles with Ward.