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Carrie Ward
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β¨ About
About Carrie Ward
Carrie Ward is a business lawyer with a particular focus on entertainment, sports, communications, and media law clients. Carrieβs clients range from media group owners, small broadcasters and podcasters, actors, filmmakers, athletes, musicians, and start-up entrepreneurs. Ms. Ward also serves as outside general counsel to corporate clients. In addition to her private practice experience, Carrie worked in the legal departments of ABC, Inc. and Entercom Communications Corp. These experiences provide her a unique ability to analyze a clientβs legal matter to create the most practical and economical solutions.
Ms. Ward also works with her clients on the day-to-day operations of their business from protecting intellectual property, reviewing and drafting various contracts, and reviewing advertising content for regulatory compliance. Carrie is also a leader in promotions and advertising law. She has advised clients on thousands of promotions during her career on local and national levels. Carrie counsels clients on promotions from the conceptual stage to prize fulfillment. Her promotions clients include broadcasters, online and mobile marketers, and insured promotions companies.
Carrie has successfully prosecuted thousands of FCC applications during the course of her career that include license renewal applications, transfer and assignment applications, ownership reports and routine engineering applications. She has a 100% success record in defending enforcement complaints. She is also a leader in policy change and authored the Petition for Rulemaking that changed the FCCβs outdated contest rule.
Carrie is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, the Burlington County Bar Association, and the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners. Ms. Ward received her Bachelorβs Degree in Justice from the American University in Washington D.C. and her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers School of Law.
βοΈ Practice Areas
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Trademarks
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Real Estate Law
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Entertainment & Sports Law
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Intellectual Property
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Estate Planning
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Communications & Internet Law
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Business Law
Credentials & Experience
π Education
Rutgers School of Law-Camden
J.D. (2005)
Law
American University
B.A. (1999)
Justice
π Bar Admissions
State Bar of Pennsylvania Β # 201036
Member
Member
Member
State Bar of New Jersey Β # 023132005
Member
Current
Member
Burlington County Bar Association
Member
2018 - Current
Member
New Jersey Association of Business Women
Member
2017 - Current
Member
Federal Communications Bar Association
Member
2014 - Current
Member
πΌ Professional Experience
Earp Cohn P.C. 2020 - Current
Calderone Bullock Ward LLC 2019 - 2020
Owner
Ward Law Group LLC 2018 - 2019
Senior Counsel
Entercom Communications Corp. 2007 - 2017
Associate
Weir & Partners LLP 2004 - 2007
π Awards & Recognition
Top Attorney
South Jersey Magazine
π Publications
- Modernizing the Filing of Contracts at the FCC and Why You Should Care About It.