Reed Smith’s industry-focused capabilities recognized in Legal 500 US rankings

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

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

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