T. Reed Stephens is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's Washington, D.C. office. Reed represents clients involved in the Life Sciences industry, including pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, wholesalers, and individuals, as well as health care systems and non-health care related companies in the financial services industry. In addition to representing clients in matters involving state and federal government law enforcement, voluntary disclosures, and congressional investigations Reed advises clients on mergers & acquisitions, public policy and legislative matters, intellectual property protection and an array of regulatory compliance matters involving product marketing, import/export controls, government drug price reporting and sales to government purchasers such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.
Reed is a nationally recognized expert in the pharmaceutical fraud and abuse and corporate compliance area – speaking frequently to private industry at conferences on a wide range of topics, including the federal Civil False Claims Act, the Federal Supply Schedule, the 340B Drug Program, the federal and state anti-kickback laws, off-label drug promotion and the development and implementation of health care corporate compliance programs.
As a former attorney with the Department of Justice Civil Division, he was lead or co-lead counsel in more than 60 investigations, the majority involving allegations of health care fraud perpetrated against various government agencies.
More than a dozen of these fraud matters that resulted in multi-million dollar recoveries to the United States. He was also lead counsel in significant non-health care government contract fraud matters involving the Department of Defense. In 2002, Reed received the Department of Justice Civil Division’s Special Commendation Award for Outstanding Service
Reed also clerked for the Honorable Clifford Scott Green of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Following his clerkship, he worked as an associate in the securities and white-collar defense litigation department of a large Washington, D.C. law firm.
Prior to joining McDermott, Reed was a partner in a large Washington, D.C. law firm, where he practiced in the Firm’s national litigation and business regulation practice. Reed handled matters in litigation, regulatory compliance, public policy and transactional work.
Reed is nationally ranked by Chambers USA as a leading health care lawyer and was named to the Nightingale’s Healthcare News’ list of Outstanding Healthcare Litigators – 2006.
Reed serves as a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Norwood School in Bethesda, Maryland and is a member of the American Bar Association, Health Law Section, D.C. Bar Association, American Inns of Court, Edward Bennett Williams Chapter, Washington, D.C., and the American Health Lawyers Association. While at Stanford, Reed was a member of the Articles Board of the Stanford Law Review.
Reed is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania.
Education
- Stanford Law School, J.D., 1991
- Princeton University, B.A., 1988
