Reed joined the Firm in 2012 and practices in the areas of probate, trusts and estates, litigation, real estate, employment and corporate law. Reed has successfully represented clients in litigation in civil matters, probate matters and on appeal.
Reed has practiced law for more than 30 years, successfully representing Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses and individuals. Reed’s experience includes five years with the litigation group of an AmLaw 100 international law firm where he handled, among other things, defending antitrust cases, Department of Justice investigations into a clients’ practices, defending a pharmaceutical company from a lawsuit brought by several state Attorneys General.
Reed co-authored the winning appellate briefs in Kraus v. Trinity Management Services, Inc. (2000) 23 Cal.4th 116, 126, a landmark California Supreme Court decision concerning California’s Unfair Competition Law. He also authored the winning briefs in Broden v. Marin Humane Society, 70 Cal.App.4th 1212 (1999) and Darrin v. Miller, 32 Cal.App.5th 450 (2019). In the former case, Reed represented the Marin Humane Society in a matter of first impression regarding animal cruelty laws and the use of the “exigent circumstances” exception to the search warrant requirement to protect animals from serious and immediate threat to their health, with the justices siding with him by overturning the trial court’s decision. In the latter case, the Court of Appeal also overturned the trial court’s decision, accepting Reed’s argument that an elder need not show a “special relationship” with a person who is abusing them, in order to obtain a protective order protecting the elder from further abuse.
Reed received his Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law in 1992, cum laude. He was Associate Editor of Fordham Law Review and Associate Managing Editor of the Fordham Environmental Law Journal. Reed is a member of the Order of the Coif. Before and during law school, Reed was a paralegal at a renowned international law firm in New York City and worked on some of the late-1980s largest mergers.
Reed is a member of the bars in California and Washington.