Ward and Smith attorney Peter Ledford has joined the North Carolina Bar Association’s Environment, Energy & Natural Resources ...

Ward and Smith attorney Madison Waller has been inducted into the Eastern North Carolina Inn of Court. The Inn is an ...

Two companies can independently arrive at the same trade secret, and both hold valid protections simultaneously. Unlike a ...

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For many entrepreneurs, the greatest financial reward comes not from annual profits, but from the eventual sale of the business they spent years building. One of the most powerful tax incentives ...

Ed Note: This article is the final installment of our five-part Writing to Persuade: An Appellate Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Writing series. Read Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four. Over the ...

Any results the law firm and/or its attorneys may have achieved on behalf of clients in other matters do not indicate similar results can be obtained for other clients. The attorney responsible for ...

Ward and Smith’s Dealer and Distributor Practice Group offers specialized services to dealers and distributors, manufacturers, marketing and sales representatives, licensors and licensees, and ...

Ward and Smith’s Dealer and Distributor Practice Group offers specialized services to dealers and distributors, manufacturers, marketing and sales representatives, licensors and licensees, and ...

Ed Note: This article is the final installment of our five-part Writing to Persuade: An Appellate Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Writing series. Read Part One, Part Two,… ...