About Ward and Smith, PA
Ward and Smith, P.A. is the successor to a practice founded in New Bern, North Carolina, in 1895. Our firm is composed of more than 70 attorneys and an additional 240 support staff members who serve clients locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally from offices in Asheville, Greenville, New Bern, Raleigh, and Wilmington.
The firm is committed – more... to quality and responsiveness and to building and maintaining a relationship with every client. We understand that our clients' needs are unique. We strive to learn about those needs and to deliver a product tailored to meet them. We also often form teams of knowledgeable professionals, from within the firm, from outside the firm, and from related disciplines, to develop strategies to help our clients prepare for future challenges and overcome current obstacles.
The quality and responsiveness of our representation are reflected in our consistently receiving the highest ratings available by the most recognized legal rating authorities. The BTI Consulting Group, Inc., has conducted nearly 1,300 independent interviews with general counsel and key decision makers that hire law firms. Ward and Smith is included in BTI's Client Service A-Team. David L. Ward, Jr. is one of only 113 attorneys nationwide and the only attorney in North Carolina included in the BTI Client Service All-Star Team. Sixteen of our attorneys are included in the publication The Best Lawyers in America. Two of our attorneys have been inducted into the North Carolina Bar Association Hall of Fame. Sixteen of our attorneys have been selected as "Legal Elite" from peer-review surveys published in Business North Carolina, one of whom is a member of the Legal Elite Hall of Fame in the field of corporate counsel. Fourteen of our attorneys are designated as "Super Lawyers" by North Carolina Super Lawyers. More than 88 percent of our attorneys, with at least seven years of experience, have been rated by their peers as being "very high" and "preeminent" in their respective fields of law, as published by the most recognized attorney rating directory. We are proud of these accomplishments and recognize that we could not have achieved them without our clients.
Our organizational structure reflects our clients' needs. We maintain practice groups for quality assurance, efficiency, and specialized client needs. Attorneys in each group, in addition to their general legal training, focus their individual practices in one or more specific fields. Areas of legal representation requested most frequently by our clients include the following: – less – More from ZoomInfo »
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Ward and Smith, PA
It was a very professional experience.
Family Law Paralegal (Former Employee), Winterville, NC – March 20, 2012
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