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Mary Catherine Baker, an attorney in Ward and Smith’s Asheville office, has been reappointed co-chair of the Buncombe County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers’ Division.…

“Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind”. –Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey and Don Henley, The Eagles, 1976 The law, like a glacier, moves…

Ward and Smith attorney Amy Wooten has been selected to serve on the North Carolina Bar Association’s Professionalism Committee for the 2026-27 fiscal year.…

Ward and Smith is proud to announce that four of our attorneys have been named 2026 IP Stars by Managing Intellectual Property, a distinction…

Ed. Note: This article is the third of five installments in our Writing to Persuade: An Appellate Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Writing series. Read…

Work authorization rules for Haitian workers with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) have changed quickly over the past few weeks. Employers with TPS-authorized employees from…

Ward and Smith attorney Sean Foerster has been named a 2026 “Legal Elite” in South Carolina. He was recognized in the Eminent Domain category…