Best Pharmacy Wholesale Liability Firms in USA

As a global leader in litigation and dispute resolution, Reed Smith offers a comprehensive suite of services tailored to your complex legal challenges. With experience in jurisdictions worldwide and a unique blend of trial capabilities, business acumen, and negotiation skills, we frequently represent clients in complex, high-stakes, and multi-jurisdictional matters. Our globally recognized disputes team of more than 800 lawyers covers a wide range of practice areas, including antitrust, appellate, commercial litigation, employment, enforcement and prosecutions, insurance recovery, intellectual property, international arbitration, product liability, securities, and tax. We identify critical issues early and leverage them to our clients’ advantage, whether through negotiation, settlement, or aggressive litigation. Building on this breadth, we bring deep industry insight across financial services, health care and life sciences, energy, transportation, and entertainment and media. This sector-specific experience enables us to proactively identify emerging risks, develop litigation strategies that align with your business and regulatory landscape, and deliver results that protect your organization’s operations and long-term value. Because we understand how disputes arise and play out within these industries, we can customize our approach to address the unique pressures and priorities facing your business, ensuring that your interests are safeguarded at every stage.

Practice areas include: Appellate, Business & Commercial Disputes, Class & Collective Action Litigation, Insurance Recovery, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, Labor, Employment & Benefits, Managed Care, Product Liability & Mass Torts, Records & E-Discovery, Trials & Arbitrations.

• Appellate
• Business & Commercial Disputes
• Class & Collective Action Litigation
• Insurance Recovery
• Intellectual Property
• International Arbitration
• Labor, Employment & Benefits
• Managed Care
• Product Liability & Mass Torts
• Records & E-Discovery
• Trials & Arbitrations

Recent articles and podcasts relevant to litigation and disputes, including product liability, contract termination rights, and appellate strategies.

• EU’s new Product Liability Directive: compliance failures now drive product liability risk – a closer look at the GPSR and AI Act (29 December 2025)
• The Court of Appeal rules on termination rights under a PPE supply contract (23 December 2025)
• The Denver Docket: Building a winning appeal, with Jim Martin (17 December 2025)

Reed Smith earns top honors in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2026.

• Reed Smith earns top honors in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2026 (16 December 2025)

Our professionals collaborate with health care and life sciences industry constituents to navigate a constantly changing regulatory and business landscape.

Podcasts and videos featuring EBG Advisors' experts discussing business needs and the value of their legal, consulting, and policy network.

• End-to-End Expertise: Understanding Business Needs
• Our Network: Legal, Consulting, and Policy

Integrated Delivery System for Dual Eligibles: The project concluded with a hybrid model for duals (ACOs in high-density areas, managed fee-for-service elsewhere) and tentative agreement with CMS on a waiver pathway.

• Hybrid model for dual eligibles
• ACO and managed fee-for-service approaches
• CMS waiver pathway

Clinician attorneys are part of the unique fabric of our Firm and we frequently utilize their collective wisdom. We have a number of attorneys who are pharmacists and those that have served the profession as podiatrists, hospital administrators, clinicians and medical billing coders. Through our experience in representing thousands of pharmacies across the country, we have developed strong relationships with key decision-makers at each pharmacy benefits manager, as well as a keen understanding of the dynamic trends and legal issues impacting pharmacies. Pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies are among the most regulated entities in the country. These entities need experienced and knowledgeable legal counsel to successfully navigate through the veritable labyrinth of State and Federal laws and regulations. Because of our collective background and experience, Frier Levitt is uniquely positioned to provide complete and comprehensive advice, balancing regulatory compliance with payor requirements and considerations. In addition, our team culture cultivates forward thinking, problem solving and innovation in the healthcare and life science industries.

Frier Levitt’s attorneys have decades of experience negotiating the complicated landscape, with an eye towards providing our clients with advice and counsel that assists them in developing programs and arrangements that comport with all applicable laws. Frier Levitt attorneys are licensed in a number of states. In addition to New Jersey, the firm has attorneys licensed in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, Massachusetts and Missouri. Our attorneys are also admitted in multiple federal courts throughout the country.

Pharmacy transaction involve unique issues that require industry expertise and experience, due in great measure to the unique change of ownership laws in most states and the varied reporting requirements of the PBMs. We are well versed in assuring proper conveyance of licenses and PBM contracts.  Further, we utilize our industry knowledge to analyze every document relative to a transaction, including audits, operating procedures, PBM contracts, and therapeutic class-specific trends in auditing and reimbursement. We also represent numerous clients in intra-corporate disputes, restrictive covenant litigation, False Claims Act investigations, Qui Tam, Self-Disclosure, investigative subpoenas, healthcare fraud investigations and various other high stakes matters. We have handled complex class actions in the healthcare and life sciences spaces, including ones against publicly traded companies. Our trial lawyers frequently consult with both our clinician attorneys and regulatory attorneys in crafting litigation strategies. In addition to providing prospective regulatory guidance, Frier Levitt defends civil and criminal investigations and prosecutions at both the federal and state level. Frier Levitt has achieved dozens of successful outcomes for our clients, in both the investigatory and litigation stages, including many complex self-disclosure settlements with the Office of the Inspector General and False Claim Act resolutions. We aggressively defend with the goal of bringing about a favorable “global resolution’ at the earliest stage possible, one that addresses not only the underlying matter but also the potential collateral consequences to a professional license and career.