T. Morgan Ward, Jr.

T. Morgan Ward, Jr.

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Louisville, KY

Phone: 502-681-0406 Fax: 502-779-8337

Email: mward@stites.com

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Education

  • University of Kentucky College of Law

    J.D. 1989

    Class Rank: Top 15%; Kentucky Law Journal, 1987-89; Corpus Juris Secundum Award for Significant Legal Scholarship, 1989; Roy S. Moreland Scholarship, 1988-89; Best Brief Award, First-Year Moot Court Program, 1987

  • Davidson College

    B.A. 1985

    Economics

    Included a summer at Cambridge University, studying the history, literature and art of England's Age of Revolution and Romanticism

Admissions

  • Kentucky

  • U.S. Supreme Court

Service Areas

  • Airport Law
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Appellate Advocacy
  • Business Litigation
  • Civil Litigation
  • Class Action, Mass Action & Multi-District Litigation
  • Commercial Disputes - Contracts and Business Torts
  • Company Management, Governance and Control Litigation
  • Complex / Large Litigation
  • Fiduciary Duty, Trade Secret and Unfair Competition Litigation
  • Financial Institutions Litigation and Subprime Litigation
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Real Estate and Land Use Litigation
  • Real Estate Practice
  • Securities Litigation
  • Trial Practice

Industry Experience

  • Insurance Carriers / Brokers / Agents
  • Real Estate / Real Estate Development

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • Kentucky Bar Association
  • Louisville Bar Association

Community Involvement

  • Louisville Olmstead Conservancy, Inc., board of directors
  • Louisville Bar Association, board of directors

T. Morgan Ward, Jr.   Litigation Counsel of America Fellow

Morgan Ward focuses his practice on business litigation, including real estate related litigation. Mr. Ward joined the firm in 1989. He is listed in Kentucky Super Lawyers 2007 magazine.

Mr. Ward has handled a variety of federal and state court litigation matters associated with the Louisville Airport Improvement Program, the $780 million expansion of Louisville's International Airport for which Stites & Harbison has served as lead counsel since the program was announced in 1988. He has also been involved in substantial ERISA and lender liability litigation and title insurance company defense matters.

Recent Assignments

  • Served as second chair before the U.S. Supreme Court in Itel Containers International Corp. v. Huddleston, 113 S.Ct. 1095 (1993), regarding the constitutionality of state taxes on cargo containers used in international commerce

Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications

  • Co-Speaker, "Exclusion 3(a) & 3(b) - Recent Trends in Title Insurance Coverage Litigation," ABA Torts Trial & Insurance Practice Section Annual Spring CLE and Leadership Forum, May 21, 2011
  • "Condemnation and Eminent Domain in Kentucky," Kentucky Real Estate Law and Practice, College of Law of the University of Kentucky (1996)

More Than Stites & Harbison

Morgan serves on the Board of Directors of the Louisville Olmsted Conservancy, Inc. He also is on the board of the Louisville Bar Association and serves on committees that monitor the integrity of judicial elections and the provision of pro-bono legal services in the community for the Louisville Bar Association. Morgan coordinates much of the firm's pro-bono work in the Louisville office. In 1998, Mr. Ward was recognized as Outstanding Volunteer Lawyer by the Legal Aid Society. He is a past chair of the Board of Directors (2006) of the Legal Aid Society of Louisville and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Housing Coalition.