Global law firm ranks in 40 practice areas, 4 achieve Hall of Fame and 7 named Leading Lawyers
Four Reed Smith lawyers received Hall of Fame recognitions, having consistently received praise over a number of years. Patrick Bradley won for Product liability, mass tort and class actions - defense: automotive/transport. Michael Brown won for Product liability, mass tort and class actions - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices. John Shugrue and John Vishneski each won for Insurance: advice to policyholders.
These seven Reed Smith lawyers received recognition as Leading Lawyers, selected based on their contribution to their practice, strong technical ability, complex and innovative work, capability and experience.
- José Astigarraga, International arbitration
- Ben Patton, Environment: Regulatory
- James Cooper, Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Keri Bruce, Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Stacy Marcus, Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Oliver Beiersdorf, Aviation and Air Travel - Litigation and Regulation
- Patrick Bradley, Aviation and Air Travel - Litigation and Regulation
Six Reed Smith lawyers were recognized as Next Generation Partners:
- Wendell Bartnick, Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Sarah Bruno, Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Han Deng, Shipping Finance
- Michael Isselin, Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Gregory Speier, Aviation and Air Travel - Litigation and Regulation
- Ryan Purpura, Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas
Two Reed Smith lawyers were dubbed as Rising Stars in the 2024 directory:
- Alice Colarossi, Shipping Finance
- Catherine Kiernan, Aviation and Air Travel - Litigation and Regulation
Here is the full list of practices that were included in the Legal 500 directory.
- Advice to Policyholders (Tier 1)
- Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Appellate: Courts of Appeal
- Appellate: Supreme Courts (states and federal)
- Aviation and Air Travel - Litigation and Regulation
- Cannabis
- CFIUS
- Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
- Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions
- Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- E-discovery
- Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas
- Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas
- Environment: Regulatory
- Environment: Transactional
- Fintech
- General commercial disputes
- Health Insurers
- International arbitration
- International tax
- Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Life Sciences
- M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media and Entertainment: Transactional
- Private equity buyouts: Middle-Market (Up to $500m)
- Product liability, mass tort and class actions - defense: automotive/transport
- Product liability, mass tort and class actions - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices (Tier 1)
- Product liability, mass tort and class actions: toxic tort - defense
- Real estate
- Renewable/Alternative Power
- Restructuring: corporate (including bankruptcy)
- Restructuring: municipal (including bankruptcy)
- Service Providers (health care)
- Shipping: finance
- Structured finance: securitization
- US taxes: non-contentious
- Venture capital and emerging companies
- Workplace and employment counseling
Here is the full group of 18 Reed Smith lawyers recognized in 19 areas (Patrick Bradley ranked twice).
- José Astigarraga, International arbitration
- Wendell Bartnick, Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Oliver Beiersdorf, Aviation and Air Travel - Litigation and Regulation
- Patrick Bradley, Product liability, mass tort and class actions - defense: automotive/transport
- Patrick Bradley, Aviation and Air Travel - Litigation and Regulation
- Michael Brown, Product liability, mass tort and class actions - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Keri Bruce, Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Sarah Bruno, Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Alice Colarossi, Shipping Finance
- James Cooper, Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Han Deng, Shipping Finance
- Michael Isselin, Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Catherine Kiernan, Aviation and Air Travel - Litigation and Regulation
- Stacy Marcus, Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Ben Patton, Environment: Regulatory
- Ryan Purpura, Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas
- John Shugrue, Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Gregory Speier, Aviation and Air Travel - Litigation and Regulation
- John Vishneski, Insurance: advice to policyholders
More details can be found on the Legal 500 United States 2024 website.
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