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Reed Smith: the future model?
March 02, 2010
Greg Jordan, the global chairman of Reed Smith, was locked away in one of the boardrooms in the firm’s New York office last week with several other key members of the management team. Their task? Wading through the annual equity partner compensation allocation process.
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Profile: Gregory B. Jordan
March 01, 2010
Reed Smith’s Gregory B. Jordan has now led the 15th largest law firm in the world through the whole of this first decade of the turbulent 21st Century. He was returned to take up his fourth successive term as global managing partner in 2009.
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Girl who fled Honduran gangs is granted asylum
February 12, 2010
An immigration judge has granted political asylum to an 11-year-old girl who fled Honduras to join her parents in San Francisco four years ago after gang members killed three of her relatives and threatened her family.
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Competition Law and Practice – A review of major jurisdictions
February 09, 2010
As Philip Lowe notes in the foreword to this book, in less than 20 years, the number of countries with competition regimes has grown from less than 30 to more than 100. This is in no small part due to the increased globalisation of trade, as well as the key political changes that have taken place over that period. Editor Marjorie Holmes, goes further, describing the plethora of competition laws as being tools in the development of capitalism.
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Employment Defense Firms Of The Year
January 25, 2010
For labor and employment defense attorneys, 2009 was a big year, highlighted by five game-changing decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court, the reversal of a massive verdict in a seminal tip-pooling case and the defeat of one of the largest Title VII classes ever certified among the litigation to grab headlines. Law360's top employment defense law firms of 2009 — Sidley Austin LLP, Proskauer Rose LLP, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Reed Smith LLP, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Seyfarth Shaw LLP — stood out for their work on some of the year's major cases.
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Product Liability Defense Firms Of The Year
January 25, 2010
For Law360’s top product liability defense teams, consumer fraud suits, forum shopping, suits claiming injuries to children and infants, and populist outrage aimed at high-powered companies turned out to be the biggest challenges of 2009. Five firms — Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Dechert LLP, Reed Smith LLP, Bowman & Brooke LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP — stood out for their work on some of the most high-profile liability cases of the year.
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Asylum Cases Keep Her on the Cutting Edge
January 11, 2010
The emotional intensity of pro bono work can make lawyers feel overwhelmed. Feeling that they've seen enough pain and suffering, some might even turn away from the work.
But gut-wrenching cases, especially those with an aura of hopelessness, are just the thing for human-rights lawyer Jayne Fleming of Reed Smith's San Francisco office. -
Mass Appeal
January 07, 2010
Reed Smith named Litigation Department of the Year in the Product Liability category by The American Lawyer.
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The Trust for Public Land Fall/Winter 2008/2009 Newsletter
January 04, 2010
Reed Smith Partner Dan Slattery was featured in The Trust For Public Land's Fall/ Winter 2009 Newsletter in its "Donor Profile" section. Dan is an advisory council member for TPL.
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Q&A with Lee Zoeller
November 04, 2009
Lee Zoeller, a partner at the international law firm Reed Smith LLP, recently began leading the Institute for Professionals in Taxation.