Scott O. Reed

Phone: 312.855.0311

Fax: 312.855.1089

E-mail: sreed@rgrlaw.com

Scott O. Reed concentrates his practice on insurance and reinsurance coverage issues with an emphasis on directors’ and officers’ liability, lawyers’ malpractice, general liability, fidelity, health care professional liability, environmental liability, and architects and engineers liability, as well as other miscellaneous professional, life, fiduciary and employment practices liability insurance. He has litigated and arbitrated in both state and federal court, with considerable experience before appellate courts.

Mr. Reed has briefed over forty appeals in state and federal courts in Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Pennsylvania and Maryland, many involving declaratory judgments over insurance issues. Most recently, Mr. Reed successfully argued on behalf of Royal Indemnity Co. in Krueger Int’l, Inc. v. Royal Indem. Co., No. 06-2611, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, April 9, 2007, where the Seventh Circuit affirmed an entry of summary judgment for the insurer in a $5.3 million employment practices coverage case. Mr. Reed is a member of the trial bar in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and chair-qualified as an arbitrator in the mandatory court-annexed arbitration programs in the Circuit Courts of Cook and DuPage Counties. He also is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Seventh Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Indiana, the Western District of Michigan and the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Prior to joining Reardon Golinkin & Reed, Mr. Reed was a partner with the Chicago firm of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered, and special counsel with Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold. After beginning his legal career as an administrative attorney and law clerk for the Illinois Appellate Court, he then joined the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, the administrative arm of the Illinois Supreme Court. In that capacity, Mr. Reed was Illinois’ chief judicial education officer, holding principal responsibility for organizing the state’s continuing judicial education programs. He also served as the staff liaison to judicial study committees and drafted court rules and commentary.

Mr. Reed has written extensively on subjects of interest to insurers and reinsurers. Among his published works are:

• “Liability Insurance Coverage for Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Claims,” – Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes, December 14, 2004;
• “Not All Settlements of Claims are Covered ‘Losses’ Under D&O or E&O Policies, ” published in Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes, May 20, 2003;
• “Disqualifying an Opposing Party – Arbitrator Before the Arbitration,” published in Mealey’s Litigation Reports – Reinsurance, January 11, 2001;
• “A Critical Examination of Plaintiffs’ Damage Analysis: An Important Defensive Tactic After Daubert and Kumho,” published in Andrews Corporate Officers and Directors Liability Reporter, January 10, 2000;
• “Disqualifying an Expert Witness,” published in Trial, June 1997;
• “Liability Insurance Coverage for the Tort of Conversion,” 62 Defense Counsel Journal, January 1995;
• “The Impact of Derivative Securities Trading on Liability Insurers,” [1995] 3 Int’l Insurance Law Review;
• “Discovery of Reserve and Reinsurance Information - An Update,” Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel Quarterly, Spring 1994 (update of article in same journal, Summer 1990);
• “Actions Against Foreign Reinsurers in US Courts,” [1994] 2 Int’l Insurance Law Review;
• •“Developing Theories of Liability Against Reinsurers and Discovery Issues Affecting Reinsurers,” Journal of Reinsurance, Summer 1994;
• “The Liability of Attorneys for Environmental Exposures,” For the Defense, April 1994;
• “Illinois Civil Voir Dire Outline,” 78 Illinois Bar Journal 194, April 1990;
• “Discovery of Computerized Litigation Support Systems,” 77 Illinois Bar Journal, February 1989 (First Place Article, Illinois State Bar Association Lincoln Legal Writing Contest);
• “Salvage and Subrogation,” in Financial Institution Bonds (ABA, Tort and Insurance Practice Section), 1989;
• “Third Party Liability to the Surety,” ABA Annual Meeting, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, August 9, 1988;
• “Market Share Liability,” 75 Illinois Bar Journal, February 1987 (First Place Article, Lincoln Legal Writing Contest); and
• “The Protected Class Under the Structural Work Act,” 74 Illinois Bar Journal, December 1985.

Mr. Reed completed his undergraduate studies in history and mathematics at the University of North Wales and the University of Illinois, receiving a B.A. in 1976. He was an intern for U.S. Representative Robert H. Michel, House Minority Whip, in 1976. Mr. Reed earned his J.D. in 1980 from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was a Dean’s List student, a Harno Fellow, and a recipient of the McRoberts Memorial Law Scholarship.

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