Whether you are just getting your business started or a seasoned business owner, Francine’s 30 years of experience in business and intellectual property law will provide the expertise necessary to give you peace of mind by protecting your content, your brand, your business structure, and your estate.
Trademarks
Legal protection for distinctive signs (such as logos or names) used in commerce to identify and distinguish goods or services.
Estate Planning
The process of arranging and organizing one’s assets, properties, and affairs to ensure efficient management upon death or incapacity.
Copyrights
Legal protection granting exclusive rights to creators for their original works, preventing unauthorized use by others.
Meet Francine
Whether you are just getting your business started or a seasoned business owner, Francine’s 30 years of experience in business and intellectual property law will provide the expertise necessary to give you peace of mind by protecting your content, your brand, your business structure, and your estate.
Francine is Of Counsel at Monty White, LLP, a full service law firm in San Rafael, CA. She heads its Business and Intellectual Property Law Group, as well as managing its Palm Desert, CA office. Francine is a 1989 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and admitted to practice in California, New York, and the District of Columbia.
Francine D. Ward
Attorney-At-Law
