HORNBLOWER MANNING & WARD PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION was founded in 1995 by a group of experienced lawyers with a determined vision for providing efficient legal services of the highest quality. Forsaking the traditional megafirm practice of over-staffing every legal matter, the firm believes in maximizing efficiency by assigning legal tasks to personnel with the most appropriate level of expertise and training. After assessing the skills and abilities of personnel, the firm assigns each attorney and legal assistant to the individual's highest and best use. This approach results in lower fees for routine matters, and focuses the highest quality of legal skill and analysis on truly complex and challenging legal problems.

The firm uses this maximum efficiency approach to legal representation in all of its practice areas, including banking, commercial and corporate law, mortgage lending, creditor representation, and civil litigation in a variety of substantive legal areas such as employment, industrial accidents, environmental and toxic torts, commercial disputes, truck and other motor vehicle accidents, governmental defense; civil rights defense.