Julia Ward

As a senior knowledge lawyer, Julia remains at the forefront of legal developments in the pensions industry and ensures that the team is kept up to date with legal and policy changes.

To ensure the team works as efficiently as possible and provides clients with value for money, Julia delivers regular legal training, drafts client briefings, maintains the team's precedent documents and works closely with the innovation team in developing bespoke solutions to client problems.

Prior to becoming a senior knowledge development lawyer, Julia practiced as a pensions associate for a number of years. She provided advice to both trustees and sponsors on day to day advisory matters as well as providing the pensions advice for complex and high value corporate transactions.

Recent experience includes: 

• Developing Stephenson Harwood’s bespoke pensions legal automation tool known as Deed Architect.
• Developing a pensions hub website to allow clients easy access to our expertise and legal knowhow materials.
• Providing ongoing technical and policy training for the Stephenson Harwood pensions team - ensuring the team remains at the forefront of legal and other developments in the pensions sector.
• Drafting regular briefings for clients in an easily digestible format about important developments. Briefings cover topics such as the developing regulation of defined benefit pension schemes, GMP equalisation, retrospective equalisation and case law updates.
• Assisting with client training and with running the Innovation Café series of workshops.