Curriculum Vitae

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PRACTICE AREAS
G. Emil Ward is the founder and owner of Ward & Associates, Counselors at Law, PC. With decades of experience in real estate matters, Attorney Ward and his firm represent condominium associations, large and small owners and managers of real estate with their management issues such as, anti-discrimination issues, evictions, security deposit issues, lease drafting, post-foreclosure evictions, Building and Sanitary Code issues, partitions of property, medical marijuana issues and class action defense, and real estate-related litigation, to name a few.

The firm represents commercial landlords and commercial tenants regarding their lease interpretations, evictions and Code issues. However, the firm does not represent residential tenants. The firm, led by Mr. Ward, has recently developed an expertise in defending large landlords against class actions, especially those based in alleged violations of the Security Deposit Statute. The firm recently defeated three separate class actions which were denied class certification due to the zealous defense provided by the team led by Mr. Ward.

PUBLICATIONS
In 1996, Mr. Ward published Massachusetts Landlord-Tenant Practice: Law and Forms. In 2011, he published Massachusetts Landlord-Tenant Practice: Law and Forms – Security Deposits and Last Month’s Rent, which is presently available through the Amazon website. Attorney Ward taught as an adjunct professor of law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, as well as having taught real estate courses at the BU Paralegal School.

ASSOCIATIONS
Emil Ward is a former member of the advisory board of Massachusetts Finance Housing Association, now known as Mass Housing. There, he also served as President for a number of years. Additionally, Mr. Ward served on the Board of Editors for Lawyers’ Weekly for approximately ten years. Mr. Ward is presently a member of the Board of Directors of the Small Property Owners’ Association and has held that position for six years.

LECTURES
Attorney Ward has recently given lectures to the Mass Continuing Legal Education Foundation and to the Real Estate Bar Association regarding the impact of the new medical marijuana law on rental property owners. Previously, Attorney Ward was the featured landlord-tenant speaker at the Massachusetts Association of Realtors conventions for three years running.

Mr. Ward has given numerous lectures to groups such as landlord attorneys, tenant attorneys, real estate brokers, to judges of the Housing Court, and to other groups on many topics involving landlord-tenant law. Attorney Ward was a guest lecturer at the Lorman Education Services seminar regarding landlord tenant law.

RADIO AND TV APPEARANCES
Emil Ward has been a guest on Media One’s Andover Law School television program: “You Be the Judge,” regarding landlord-tenant law. In the last year, Emil Ward was a contributing expert on the popular radio show “Real Estate Radio,” which airs on WBZ Radio.

TESTIMONY
Attorney Ward has testified on numerous occasions before the Massachusetts House Joint Committee on Housing and Urban Development in favor of passing a mandatory rent escrow law, which would level the playing field in Massachusetts for landlords.

LEGISLATIVE ANALYSIS
Mr. Ward was a consultant to the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and to the Small Property Owners Association analyzing and critiquing bills having to do with mandatory rent escrow.

EDUCATION
B.S., Biology, Dickinson College
Juris Doctor, Northeastern University Law School

LICENSES
Massachusetts Bar
Federal Bar, First Circuit