Candace B. Ford - Lawyer in Baton Rouge, LA

One American Place, Suite 2300, 301 Main Street, P.O. Box 3197,
Baton Rouge, LA 70801

Practice Areas

Litigation Baton Rouge, LA Commercial Litigation Baton Rouge, LA Complex and High Profile Civil and Commercial Litigation Baton Rouge, LA Civil and Commercial Litigation Baton Rouge, LA Business and Commercial Transactions Baton Rouge, LA Complex Commercial Litigation Baton Rouge, LA Commercial and Corporate Litigation Baton Rouge, LA Complex Commercial and Corporate Litigation Baton Rouge, LA Commercial and Residential Real Estate Baton Rouge, LA Business and Commercial Law Baton Rouge, LA

About the lawyer

Candace B. Ford is an excellent lawyer from Baton Rouge, LA. Attorney Candace B. Ford works in an office located at One American Place, Suite 2300, 301 Main Street, P.O. Box 3197, Baton Rouge, LA 70801. Baton Rouge lawyer Jared K. Miller will help you solve all issues in the following areas of law: Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Complex and High Profile Civil and Commercial Litigation, Civil and Commercial Litigation, Business and Commercial Transactions, Complex Commercial Litigation, Commercial and Corporate Litigation, Complex Commercial and Corporate Litigation, Commercial and Residential Real Estate, Business and Commercial Law Baton Rouge, LA. Candace B. Ford is the best lawyer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana state!

Candace B. Ford is an Associate in the Baton Rouge office of Breazeale, Sachse Wilson, L.L.P. in the Commercial Litigation practice group. Her principal areas of practice include litigation involving unfair trade practices and unfair competition, contract disputes, healthcare related litigation, and general business and commercial litigation issues. Candace also has experience representing financial institutions, mortgage banks and lenders, mortgage loan servicers and issuers, and other consumer financial services providers in lender liability actions. Candace practices in both state and federal courts, and before administrative courts.

She joined BSW after serving as an Assistant Parish Attorney for the City of Baton Rouge/Parish of East Baton Rouge where she defended the city in a variety of litigation, primarily serving as federal counsel. She devoted a significant portion of her practice to representing law enforcement agencies against Section 1983 claims and other civil rights litigation. She also has experience defending the city against planning and zoning, personal injury, and many constitutional issues.

Additionally, Candace previously served as a federal law clerk at the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana where she worked closely with a federal judge, which enabled her to strengthen her writing, analytical, and research skills.

Candace received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Southern University Law Center in the top 5% of her class, where she served as Articles Editor for the Southern University Law Review and where she received a top oral advocate award at a national inter-school moot court competition. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, summa cum laude, with a concentration in Pre-law and Paralegal Studies from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Candace is a regular volunteer for the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation Pro Bono Project. She has been a dependable and consistent volunteer for outreach activities including Thirst for Justice, Ask-A-Lawyer and the new COVID-19 Legal Hotline.A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, Candace enjoys participating in community service, traveling and spending time with her husband, Aaron V. Ford Jr. and daughter Erin, and taking her beagle, Bentlee, to the dog park.

Because Candace brings a lot of litigation experience and an unusually broad legal background to BSW, she is highly effective in serving her clients. Candace is naturally detail-oriented and extremely efficient. She specializes in exhaustive preparation for her cases, and has an uncanny ability to identify some way, even if it is usual, to formulate and deliver a compelling argument supporting her clients position. If there is a way to win, Candace will find it.