Keri S. Bruce

Partner

Guides brands through the evolving advertising and media landscape, drawing on deep industry experience and a firsthand understanding of how agencies and advertisers work

“Having Keri on your team is a strategic advantage.”

Chambers USA, Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory

“Keri is extremely knowledgeable in all areas of advertising law and has been invaluable to us as a client in numerous ways.”

Chambers USA, Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory client

“If there is any attorney I would want in the trenches with me, it's Keri.”

Chambers USA, Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory

“Keri has business sense and a solution-oriented approach.”

Chambers USA, Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory

Keri heads the Advertising Subsector Group at Reed Smith and serves as co-chair of the firm’s Retail & Consumer Goods Diagonal Group.

She advises clients on a broad array of issues relating to advertising, marketing, and the commercialization of products and services, including talent and celebrity endorsements; influencer agreements and programs; advertising and media agency agreements; ad tech; production services agreements; vendor agreements; technology, sponsorship, licensing, and strategic alliance agreements; emerging technology platforms – AI, AR, VR, NFTs, and the Metaverse; intellectual property issues, including copyright, trademark, and rights of privacy and publicity; social media compliance; rights of advertisers pursuant to collective bargaining agreements with performing unions; commercial co-ventures and other charitable sales promotions; loyalty programs; claim substantiation; false advertising claims; sweepstakes; contests; promotional incentives, such as gift cards, rebates, and coupons; and general advertising review.

Recognitions

  • Ranked in Chambers USA for Nationwide Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory, 2019-2026

  • Listed in The Legal 500 US for Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory – Hall of Fame (2025); Next Generation Partner and Leading Lawyer (2022–2024)

  • Named to Ad Age’s Leading Women list, 2025

Credentials

Education

  • Brooklyn Law School, 2007, J.D., Brooklyn Journal of International Law – Associate Managing Editor; Moot Court Honor Society – Appellate Division
  • University of Arkansas, 1997, B.A., Journalism

Professional admissions & qualifications

  • New York

Clerkships

  • State Supreme Court - New York, Honorable Michelle Weston Patterson

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