A litigator with over 33 years of experience in toxic tort, professional negligence, product liability and civil rights/employment discrimination lawsuits.

Though primarily engaged by the defense, Mr. Ward's regular counseling of business clients has required the representation of plaintiffs in such matters as a claim for legal malpractice which produced a jury verdict in excess of $1 million.

A graduate of the University of San Francisco (B.A., 1968; J.D. cum laude, 1971), Mr. Ward was Associate Editor of the USF Law Review.

While practicing in the Office of the San Francisco City Attorney, Mr. Ward became the Chief Trial Deputy, the Chief Deputy, and the acting City Attorney prior to joining Hassard Bonnington in 1986.

Mr. Ward is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, and serves on the faculties of the Hastings College of the Law Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy and the University of San Francisco Intensive Advocacy Program.