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• Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Reed Smith

  Publication Date: 12 January 2012

  Reed Smith LLP finessed plaintiffs in multimillion-dollar Web tracking class actions into refining their claims, then flexed its technical expertise to free ETrade Financial Corp. and two other clients from the suits, showcasing the strength that put the firm on Law360's list of Privacy and Consumer Protections Groups of 2011.

• Client Satisfaction Report 2011

  Publication Date: 30 December 2011

  Based on feedback from over 1,000 companies across the Middle East, Asia and Europe, Reed Smith placed third in the ranking of Legal Week's Client Satisfaction Report 2011. This research provides independent analysis of the performance of the 75 largest law firms across an array of criteria, ranging from quality of legal and commercial advice to service delivery, billing practices to transparency.

• Reed Smith Launches MF Global Task Force

  Publication Date: 22 December 2011

  Reed Smith Partners Kyri Evagora and Georgia Quenby are leading a task force for clients who have been affected by the MF Global Chapter 11 in the US and special administration in the UK.

• Reed Smith Launches Global Energy & Natural Resources Group …

  Publication Date: 2 November 2011

  The energy and natural resources industries continue to grow as important drivers of the global economy, and Reed Smith LLP has today announced an expanded Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) Group to respond to its clients' needs around the world. The group is comprised of 100 lawyers in key geographies across the firm's global platform.

• American Lawyer's 2011 Lifetime Achievers: Lowell Sachnoff

  Publication Date: 12 September 2011

  The son of Ukrainian immigrants who fled Eastern Europe and later settled in Chicago during the Great Depression, Lowell Sachnoff spent his childhood listening to his Jewish relatives talk about how family and friends were tortured and killed in Russia. "My grandparents told us stories about how terrible life was in a lawless society," Sachnoff says. "I think that's why I wanted to become a lawyer." Since graduating from Harvard Law School in 1957, Sachnoff has been on two parallel tracks.

• Reed Smith Announces New Office in Shanghai - Jay Yan Takes …

  Publication Date: 13 July 2011

  Reed Smith LLP, a leading global law firm, has strengthened its leadership position in Asia with the announcement that it is opening an office in Shanghai, the most populous city in China, effective immediately. With the firm's current offices in Hong Kong and Beijing, this gives Reed Smith its third office in Asia.

• It’s Certified: These Law Firms Empower Women

  Publication Date: 17 June 2011

  The Women in Law Empowerment Forum on June 14 released the initial list of law firms qualifying for its new Gold Standard Certification - a designation for firms that have integrated women in top leadership positions and compensated them well.

• Global 20: Reed Smith

  Publication Date: 15 June 2011

  A series of smart mergers helped Reed Smith LLP quickly expand its international capabilities and offer superior cross-border support to some of the world's largest multinationals - including Johnson & Johnson, General Electric Co., Bank of America Corp. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. - in 22 offices across three continents, winning the firm a spot on Law360's Global 20 list.

• A Higher Calling

  Publication Date: 10 June 2011

  Earlier this year Robert Ingato, general counsel of CIT Group Inc., was puzzling over a regulatory issue. He and one of his staff lawyers couldn't decide what the company should do. Then he remembered that a law firm he uses had formed an advisory group of former general counsel who offer clients free advice. He asked his colleague to call. And bingo: clarity. The law firm is Reed Smith.

• Responding in the fight to keep the best lawyers

  Publication Date: 9 June 2011

  A tough economic environment has put the squeeze on the career opp firms can offer associates, including the goal of partnership. Marialuisa Taddia looks at how firms are responding in the fight to keep their best lawyers.