The firm achieved Tier 1 rankings in two categories:
- Dispute resolution – Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Industry focus – Insurance: advice to policyholders
Reed Smith was ranked in 14 industry-focus categories concentrated on industries such as energy, environment, health care, and transport. The firm’s litigation work on liability and mass tort cases was highly regarded, as was its appellate, e-discovery, international arbitration and trade litigation work.
Practice awards
In the industry-focus categories (see below), Reed Smith was ranked several times in energy, health care and transport.
- Cannabis
- Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy regulation: conventional power
- Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment: litigation
- Environment: regulatory
- Healthcare: health insurers
- Healthcare: life sciences
- Healthcare: service providers
- Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Transport: aviation and air travel - litigation and regulation
- Transport: shipping - finance
Reed Smith litigation and dispute resolution practices were selected for the following categories.
- Appellate: Courts of Appeal
- Appellate: Supreme Courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to corporates
- E-discovery
- General commercial disputes
- International arbitration
- International trade
- Product liability, mass tort and class actions: toxic tort – defense (automotive/transport)
- Product liability, mass tort and class actions: toxic tort – defense (pharmaceuticals and medical devices)
- Product liability, mass tort and class actions: toxic tort – defense (toxic tort)
The firm’s labor and employment group was recognized in five categories.
- Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Workplace and employment counseling
The firm’s finance group was recognized in four categories.
- Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Structured finance: securitization
The firm’s practice in media, technology and telecoms was featured in four categories.
- Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Fintech
- Media and entertainment: transactional
Under the tax heading, the firm was recognized for:
- International Tax
- Taxes: Contentious
- Taxes: Non-contentious
Under M&A/corporate and commercial, the firm was featured for:
- M&A: middle-market ($500M-999M)
- Private equity buyouts
- Venture capital and emerging companies
Other featured practice areas for the firm:
- Government: Government contracts
- Real Estate
Associated with these featured industry categories, various Reed Smith lawyers received Hall of Fame, Leading Lawyer, Next Generation Partners, or Rising Star distinction. They are:
- Patrick Bradley, Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport (Hall of Fame)
- Michael Brown, Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices (Hall of Fame)
- John Shugrue, Insurance: advice to policyholders (Hall of Fame)
- John Vishneski, Insurance: advice to policyholders (Hall of Fame)
- Douglas Wood, Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory (Hall of Fame)
- José Astigarraga, International arbitration (Leading Lawyer)
- Greg Chase, Transport: shipping - finance (Leading Lawyer)
- Marc Hauser, Cannabis (Leading Lawyer)
- Colette Honorable, Energy regulation: oil and gas (Leading Lawyer)
- Stacy Marcus, Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory (Leading Lawyer)
- Ben Patton, Environment: regulatory (Leading Lawyer)
- Wendell Bartnick, Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection) (Next Generation Partners)
- Keri Bruce, Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory (Next Generation Partners)
- Jennifer Gardner, Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design (Next Generation Partners)
- LiLing Poh, Venture capital and emerging companies (Next Generation Partners)
- Gregory Speier, Transport: aviation and air travel - litigation and regulation (Rising Star)
Hall of Fame honorees are defined as individuals who have received constant praise from their clients for continued excellence and have been ranked often in the past. Leading Lawyer honorees are defined as partners who have received excellent referee and peer feedback, and are prominent in their field. Next Generation Partners are defined as junior/new/younger partners who make a material difference to the practice. Rising Star is defined as junior/new/younger associates and counsel who make a material difference to the practice.
About Reed Smith
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