Mr. Ward has earned national recognition for his work in the area of DWI defense – against both criminal charges and administrative license suspensions and revocations. Since 1984, he has represented more than 2,000 drivers accused of DWI in nearly 200 municipal and state courts throughout Missouri, including all three Missouri Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Missouri. Through his appellate work in many of these cases, he has helped shape DWI law in Missouri as we now know it. Mr. Ward is certified – through a NHTSA/IACP-approved training program – as a field sobriety testing instructor, has been factory trained as a maintenance supervisor on the BAC Datamaster (Missouri's primary breath-testing machine), and completed an extensive training program in gas chromatography (Missouri's blood-testing technology). Mr. Ward has also been quoted in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis Daily Record, Missourian, and Missouri Lawyers Weekly – among others – and his 2002 case, Brown v. Director of Revenue, made Missouri Lawyers Weekly's list of Top Cases of 2002. (In Brown, the Supreme Court of Missouri held that a trial court may disregard the results of improperly-administered field sobriety tests when determining whether probable cause existed for a police officer to arrest a driver for DWI – an issue in every administrative license suspension or revocation case in Missouri.) In addition to his practice of law, Mr. Ward also trains private defense attorneys, judges, prosecuting attorneys, public defenders, and police officers throughout Missouri in DWI law and field sobriety test administration, and has chaired or moderated the State's largest DWI defense training seminars since 1997.
