Earl Ward, Esq.

Mr. Ward has been in private practice as a criminal defense attorney and civil rights litigator since 1996, and as a member of the New York State Capital Defender Panel, is assigned death penalty cases. From 1992 to 1996, he served as both a staff attorney and a supervising attorney for the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, where he represented indigent defendants in criminal matters. Mr. Ward also worked as a staff attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union from 1989 to 1992, and previous to that as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Division. He has been a board member of the Bronx Defenders, a public interest law organization, since 1998, and a board member of Housing Works since 2001. Mr. Ward, a city council designee, has been a board member from New York County since January 1997.

J.D., 1985, New York University School of Law; B.A. 1982, Rutgers University

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