Wards Barristers & Solicitors Pty Ltd have been providing service to clients throughout East Gippsland since 1981.

The firm was established by Tony Ward in April 1981 in Bailey Street, Bairnsdale before moving to its current home at 10 Service Street, Bairnsdale in 1990. The firm initially operated as Semmens Hatch & Anderson but changed to Wards Barristers & Solicitors Pty Ltd from 1987.

The firm provides professional services in the following areas: Family Law, Family Violence and Personal Safety Intervention Orders, Criminal Law, Wills, Estates, Will challenges, Powers of Attorney, Aged Care, Advice and Elderly Law, Property Transfers, Commercial transactions, Employment Law; and General Civil Disputes.