Retired Skadden Arps office leader Rod Ward dies

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Rodman Ward Jr., the founder and former leader of the Wilmington office of Skadden Arps died on March 18.

According to Skadden, Rod helped launch the Wilmington office in 1979, making Skadden the first firm not headquartered in Delaware to establish a local office.

“Over the next two decades Rod led our Wilmington team while cementing his stature as one of the state’s top litigators. In addition, he served as the president of the Delaware State Bar, a member of numerous Delaware and New York bar committees, and a trustee of the Medical Center of Delaware and the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library,” the Skadden statement noted.

Ward retired from the firm in 2004,

Ward attended Williams College and Harvard Law Schoo, and served in the Air Force for three years as a judge advocate at an air base in Japan before entering private practice.

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Ward was a member of the family that co-founded and owns CSC, a Delaware-based business services company that now operates worldwide.

Rodman Ward, III is CEO of CSC.

Click here for a tribute to Ward from Harvard Law School’s Forum on Corporate Governance.

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