Jackie Ward

Senior Associate




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  • Credentials

Jackie Ward primarily represents producers and production companies, focusing on rights grants, acquisitions and clearances of all forms, including complex chain of title, life rights and fair use matters. Jackie strives to guide clients through all stages of a production’s life cycle, starting at the development-stage rights acquisition and continuing through distributor delivery. Prior to joining Ramo Law in 2023, she gained substantial experience at a boutique entertainment law firm working as production, financing and distribution counsel for both scripted and unscripted film, television, podcast and digital content productions.  


Jackie is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science with a major in Finance. She went on to receive her Juris Doctorate from Belmont University College of Law with an Entertainment and Music Business Law Certificate with Honors. During law school, Jackie was a member of Volunteer Lawyers and Professional for the Arts where she provided pro-bono legal services for low-income entertainment clients.

Select Fair Use, Rights, and Clearance Works

  • “Last Stop Larrimah,” 2023
  • “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off,” 2022
  • “Somebody Somewhere,” 2022 – 2023
  • “Biosphere,” 2022
  • “The Drop,” 2022
  • “Spin Me Round,” 2022
  • “Cinema Toast,” 2021
  • “Sasquatch,” 2021
  • “The Lady and the Dale,” 2021


Select Production Legal

  • “Boy Kills World,” 2023
  • “Sympathy for the Devil,” 2023
  • “The Apology,” 2022
  • “Wendell & Wild,” 2022
  • “Padre Pio,” 2022
  • “No Man of God,” 2021
  • “Archenemy,” 2020
  • “Concrete Cowboy,” 2020 
  • “Horse Girl,” 2020
  • “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” 2020


Awards/Recognitions

Speaking Engagements

Bar Admissions

  • State Bar of California, 2019


Education

  • Juris Doctorate, Entertainment and Music Business Law Certificate with Honors, Belmont University College of Law 
  • Bachelor of Science, Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign