Reed Smith earned mention in 46 practice areas, many of them industry-specific, in the recently published Legal 500 United States 2022 rankings. The directory ranks and recommends law firms and lawyers in the United States.
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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
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
- 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)
- 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
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