Reed Smith Student Newsletter – Issue 1 (March 2011)

Reed Smith Student Newsletter

Issue 1 March 2011

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Welcome...

...to the very first edition of our student newsletter. We plan to use these to keep you updated on both recruitment and firm related information going into 2011. We hope that you will find them interesting and useful.

We wish you all the best with your studies and applications in the year ahead!

– RS Graduate Recruitment

P.S If there is anyone you think would be interested in receiving this newsletter, please forward it on and ask them to sign up!


	Training Contracts Applications are currently open for training contracts to commence in August 2013 and February 2014. The closing date for applications is 31st July 2011. Our application form has been designed to assess your research and analysis and commercial awareness skills, amongst others, and gives you the opportunity to really show off your knowledge and abilities. The form will get you thinking about and using the skills you will need as a trainee and we would highly recommend that you start your application in good time so that there is no time pressure before the deadline.
	So, why Reed Smith? Milan Joshi is one of our second-year trainees and he says... "At Reed Smith you really are given a lot of responsibility with top quality high-value work early in your seat. Within my first month I had already contributed to an article, conducted technical legal research, drafted memos to clients and was involved in conference calls with counsel and the clients."
	Reed Smith accolades Reed Smith awarded "Best Trainer – Large City Firm Award" by Law Careers.Net (June 2010). To see more, click here. Listed in 9th place out of 45 firms in Roll on Friday's "Firm of the year 2011" survey. For the seventh year straight, Reed Smith was ranked among the Client Service 30, the top performing law firms for client service in industry consultant BTI's annual "Client Service A Team" report. Reed Smith jumps from 75 percent to 95 percent on The Human Rights Campaign's annual LGBT Workplace Survey (October 2010). Reed Smith has been ranked 4th amongst the top international law firms for diversity in The Black Solicitors Network Diversity League Table 2010. This is the second year running that we have come out in the top 10 in the table.
	Some Firm News... New Partner Hire for the Energy Trade & Commodities Team The firm has recently announced the appointment of Stefan Schmitiz to our Energy & Natural Resources practice in London. Stefan, who was previously at McDermott Will & Emery, focuses on renewable energy (wind and solar energy in particular). To read more on this click here. Exploring our Corporate Social Responsibility initiative Pro bono counsel Jayne E. Fleming of the San Francisco office leads Reed Smith's 100-member Human Rights team. For many years, she and her team have represented torture survivors and asylum seekers from nearly every continent, and she has extensive experience working with traumatized children who have suffered violence, displacement and family separation. However, last year's devastating earthquake in Haiti has taken over her priorities. In March, Jayne launched a unique project in Haiti to identify from among the neediest of earthquake survivors, candidates for emergency Humanitarian Parole to the United States. To read more on this click here. Partner Promotions At the beginning of January we announced the election of 25 new partners Firmwide. Out of the newly elected partners, 4 are in the London office. "All of these highly capable women and men are representative of Reed Smith's commitment to exceptional client service, intellectual and legal integrity, and public service around the globe," said Gregory B. Jordan, Reed Smith's Global Managing Partner. "We welcome them as partners and look forward with optimism to their future contributions to our firm and the greater legal and business community." To read more on this story, click here.
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About Reed Smith
Reed Smith is a global relationship law firm with nearly 1,600 lawyers in 22 offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Founded in 1877, the firm represents leading international businesses, from Fortune 100 corporations to mid-market and emerging enterprises. Its lawyers provide litigation and other dispute resolution services in multi-jurisdictional and other high-stakes matters; deliver regulatory counsel; and execute the full range of strategic domestic and cross-border transactions. Reed Smith is a preeminent advisor to industries including financial services, life sciences, health care, advertising, technology and media, shipping, energy trade and commodities, real estate, manufacturing, and education. For more information, visit reedsmith.com.

Europe: London, Paris, Munich, Greece

Middle East: Abu Dhabi, Dubai

Asia: Hong Kong, Beijing

United States: New York, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Princeton, Northern Virginia, Wilmington, Silicon Valley, Century City, Richmond

The information contained in this text is intended to be a general guide only and not to be comprehensive, nor to provide legal advice. You should not rely on the information contained in this Alert as if it were legal or other professional advice.

Reed Smith LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC303620 and its registered office at The Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London EC2A 2RS. Reed Smith LLP is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Any reference to the term 'partner' in connection to Reed Smith LLP is a reference to a member of it or an employee of equivalent status.

This text was compiled up to and including March 2011.

Business from offices in the United States and Germany is carried on by Reed Smith LLP, a limited liability partnership formed in the state of Delaware; from the other offices, by Reed Smith LLP of England; but in Hong Kong, the business is carried on by Richards Butler in association with Reed Smith LLP (of Delaware, USA). A list of all Partners and employed attorneys as well as their court admissions can be inspected at the firm's website.

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