Practice Areas
Honors + Affiliations
James Kent Scholar, Columbia University Law School
Articles Editor, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law
Member, American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Member, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Compliance and Legal Division
Member, Administrative Law Committee, New York City Bar Association
Bar Admissions
- New York
Adrienne Marie Ward Partner
- New York
- 101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.6794
Fax: 212.309.6001
Adrienne M. Ward is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Ms. Ward focuses her practice on complex securities litigation and the representation of public companies, broker-dealers, investment advisors and their employees in SEC, state and SRO investigations, internal investigations and other regulatory enforcement matters. Her background includes a wide variety of commercial civil litigations as well as white collar criminal defense work. Ms. Ward most recently defended broker-dealer clients in matters involving fee-based accounts, market timing, the research analyst rules and registration and other reporting requirements.
Ms. Ward earned her J.D. in 1994 from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a James Kent Scholar and received the Susan Price Carr Scholarship. She also served as an articles editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and as a Helena Rubenstein Foundation Fellow at the National Organization of Women, Legal Defense Fund. Ms. Ward received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985.
Ms. Ward is admitted to practice in New York.
Education
- Columbia University Law School, 1994, J.D.
- University of Pennsylvania, 1985, B.A.