Reed Smith is pleased to announce that U.S. News – Best Lawyers has named the firm 2019 "Law Firm of the Year" in Insurance Law, for the outstanding work of its Insurance Recovery lawyers. It is the fourth time the firm has received the honor.
In addition, Reed Smith has achieved Best Law Firms rankings in 150 practice areas. The practice rankings are divided between 37 National and 113 Metropolitan areas. Fourteen on the list are newly ranked. The three National practices include: Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law, Securities / Capital Markets Law, and Securitization and Structured Finance Law. The 11 Metropolitan areas are:
- Chicago Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law
- Houston Corporate Compliance Law
- Houston Corporate Governance Law
- Houston Corporate Law
- Houston Energy Law
- New Jersey Health Care Law
- New York City Commercial Litigation
- Pittsburgh Energy Law
- Richmond Litigation – Labor & Employment
- San Francisco Securitization and Structured Finance Law
- Washington, D.C. Litigation – Trusts & Estates
Overall, 93 practice areas are ranked in Tier 1, 22 of them National and 71 of them Metropolitan, including 20 practices in Pittsburgh; 12 in Philadelphia; seven in both Houston and Washington, D.C.; five in Chicago; four each in Delaware, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco; two in Richmond; and one each in New York and Princeton.