Reid Smith
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Reid focuses his practice on complex civil litigation and has a broad range of experience in federal, state, and appellate disputes. He has extensive experience managing class action, multidistrict, and other high-stakes commercial litigation.
Key Matters
Reid’s recent representative experience includes the following:
- Currently representing a multinational food processing and commodities trading company facing multiple class action lawsuits in federal court alleging that the company’s trading in ethanol futures violated the Commodity Exchange and Sherman Act, as well as other state law claims.
- Currently serving as national counsel for a pharmaceutical company facing over 800 products liability lawsuits pending across the country involving the manufacture of opioid medications.
- Represented a food ingredient manufacturer in a class action case in federal court alleging that the company’s equine produces were contaminated with a product poisonous to horses.
- Recently went to trial in federal court representing a multinational pharmaceutical company in connection with pharmaceutical patent infringement litigation.
- Successfully argued in favor of certification of a class of all current and future prisoners incarcerated the Illinois Department of Corrections related to due process and cruel and unusual punishment claims.
- Represented a major technology company in a breach of contract case in which the opposing party sought hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.