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Privacy MVP: Reed Smith’s Mark Melodia
January 12, 2012
It's a common dilemma: A company suffers a data breach, and one of its customers launches a class action. Reed Smith LLP partner Mark S. Melodia helped one client find an uncommon solution, staving off traditional credit monitoring and saving it cash - the sort of inventive thinking that landed him a spot on Law360's list of Privacy MVPs.
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Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Reed Smith
January 12, 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.
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Client Satisfaction Report 2011
December 09, 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.
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Armed with Dukes Ruling, Reed Smith Slays Class in Discrimination Case Against Wells Fargo
September 15, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes might not have turned out to be the class action silver bullet that some had anticipated, but that's little consolation to class action plaintiffs lawyers who brought claims against Wells Fargo over allegedly discriminatory subprime lending. On Tuesday San Francisco federal district court judge Maxine Chesney rejected the plaintiffs' motion for class certification, ruling that the proposed class of more than 1 million black and Hispanic homeowners didn't survive the certification standard for commonality set out by the Supreme Court.
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American Lawyer's 2011 Lifetime Achievers: Lowell Sachnoff
September 12, 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.
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Reed Smith Helps SunTrust Unit Win $40 Million Award Against AIG
August 30, 2011
In recent years, the Litigation Daily has made an observation about some of the suits stemming from the financial crisis: Picking a side to root for is not always easy, particularly when AIG is involved. For example, the troubled company that today is largely owned by U.S. taxpayers has become embroiled in insurance spats with lenders who made risky mortgages that contributed to today's economic morass.
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Munger Tolles, Reed Smith to Defend Bank of America and Countrywide Against AIG; Bondholders in $8.5 Billion BofA Settlement Lash Out at AIG over Suit
August 30, 2011
When American International Group and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan sued Bank of America last Monday over $10.5 billion in mortgage-backed securities losses, investors deemed the lawsuit a significant threat--on top of the general market tumult--and forced BoFA's shares down 20 percent. The bank clearly needed legal muscle, and fast.
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It’s Certified: These Law Firms Empower Women
June 17, 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.
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There and back again
June 16, 2011
Employment law Martha Hartle Munsch's journey from the courtroom to the classrom and back.
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Global 20: Reed Smith
June 15, 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.