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Ward and Smith is proud to announce that 75 attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers in America. First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is…

Attorney Allen Trask has been elected to a three-year term on the Cape Fear Museum Associates Board. The election took place at the organization’s…

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…