News Releases
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Reed Smith Teams with LCCR in Suit Against City of Tulare Over Violations of California Voting Rights Act
August 31, 2010
Reed Smith LLP has joined with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area to file a lawsuit on behalf of Latino voters against the City of Tulare, charging that the City's at-large system that governs the selection of its City Council members is plagued by racially polarized voting, and violates the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA).
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Reed Smith Continues To Expand Media Practice on the West Coast - James Thoma Joins the Firm’s Los Angeles Office
August 31, 2010
James Thoma, who for more than 20 years has represented leading financiers, funds and banks in the motion picture and television industry, has joined the firm's growing Entertainment/Media Finance Team in the Corporate & Securities Group in Los Angeles. Thoma's practice will continue to focus on media fund formation, major investments in media companies, and tent pole picture financing, with a strong emphasis on international co-productions and investment.
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100 Reed Smith Attorneys Among The Best Lawyers In America 2011 - Firm Earns 129 Positions on Nationwide List Spanning 40 Fields of Legal Practice
August 24, 2010
One hundred lawyers from Reed Smith LLP have claimed 129 positions on the 2011 list of The Best Lawyers in America. Nineteen were listed in more than a single practice area for the year; all but six have been honored by the publication in prior years. Thirty-four of the firm's attorneys were first named to the list at least a decade ago.
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Marc Kaufman Joins Reed Smith's IP Practice in D.C. - Firm Adds IP Strategist & Patent Partner
August 23, 2010
Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of leading IP strategist Marc Kaufman as a partner in its firmwide Intellectual Property Group. The former Nixon Peabody IP patents partner will be resident in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.
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New York State Supreme Court Approves Procedures for Quantification of Claims in Anticipation of Proposed $200 Million First Interim Distribution to Investors I Former J. Ezra Merkin Investment Funds – Ariel Fund LTD., and Gabriel Capital, L.P.
August 18, 2010
Justice Richard B. Lowe, III, of the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, has granted the motion of Bart M. Schwartz, as Receiver for Ariel Fund, Ltd., and Gabriel Capital, L.P. - two private investment funds formerly run by J. Ezra Merkin that are alleged to have secretly invested more than one-fourth of their assets with Bernard L. Madoff - to set a Claims Bar Date, fix manner of providing notice of such Claims Bar Date, and establish procedures for resolution of objections, in anticipation of a First Interim Distribution of more than $200 million to investors of the Ariel and Gabriel funds.