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Reed Smith LLP

Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded

Global Guide 2026 : USA

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Reed Smith LLP

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Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded - USA

Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Reed Smith has a well-established practice and is highly experienced in representing clients in complex FTC proceedings and privacy-related litigation. Additional capability in assisting clients with incident response preparedness, crisis planning and diverse regulatory issues including CCPA and GDPR compliance. While also boasting a bourgeoning healthcare practice, assisting clients in traditional health privacy cases to novel digital health issues. It also offers a truly global service with offices across Europe.

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Strengths

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  • Reed Smith are very thorough, forward-thinking and highly competent HIPAA counsel. They are very responsive, reliable and provide a quick turnaround with high-quality work.

    Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal

  • Reed Smith provide practical, balanced guidance with deep knowledge of our business. They have handled any complex matter we have entrusted them with in the healthcare IT and data space.

    Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal

  • Reed Smith have the ability to understand and provide guidance and different perspectives as needed to assist with handling privacy incidents, interpretations of new/revised regulations, etc.

    Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal

  • They have deep knowledge of this rapidly evolving area of the law, willingness to proactively stay on top of new information/trends and benchmark our competitors.

    Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal

  • The team is well-equipped to handle complex matters because of the experience and technical expertise of the lawyers who work on our matters.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Wendell Bartnick
    Wendell Bartnick

    Wendell Bartnick

    Wendell Bartnick has extensive experience in data privacy and cybersecurity and utilizes this to assist healthcare clients. He is especially adept and helping prepare incident responses and evaluating the use of AI.

    • Wendell has very strong technical skills, serves as a great bridge between the cyber security team individuals and my legal team, can quickly understand the 'tech talk' and translates it to lawyers.

      Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal

    • Wendell is an outstanding attorney and individual to work with. He is very knowledgeable and helpful in particular to my practice on matters related to healthcare technology, data and Generative AI.

      Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal

    • I really like working with Wendell, he's a former IT person and is extremely responsive, helpful and can distill pretty complex concepts for our business folks' use.

      Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal

    • Wendell is responsive and very knowledgeable.

      Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal

    • Wendell has extremely strong technical skills related to security and contracting. I appreciate his practical approach to reviewing contracts and protecting my organization.

      Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal
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  • Gerard M. Stegmaier
    Gerard M. Stegmaier

    Gerard M. Stegmaier

    Gerard Stegmaier assists clients in complying with regulatory regimes, including both data protection and cybersecurity matters. He also frequently represents the subjects of governmental investigations and enforcement actions and advises on the use of AI.

    • Gerard is an excellent privacy lawyer.

      Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded respondentGlobal

    • Gerard is one of those incredibly bright, creative, pretty unique lawyers. He really thinks outside of the box and offers thoughtful advice. I think he's well known as a trailblazer.

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