Reed Smith appoints attorney and former US DoT senior advisor
Global law firm Reed Smith has hired Julia Norsetter, JD, formerly a senior policy advisor at the US Department of Transportation, as the policy and analysis lead for the firm’s global Transportation Industry Group.
In the newly created role, Norsetter will provide analysis and strategic input, as well as sharing insights into the transportation market, specifically in shipping, and aviation and advanced air mobility – representing a number of Reed Smith’s key sectors.
Norsetter previously developed strategic policies at the US Department of Transportation, including emerging transportation and advanced air mobility in alignment with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
She will report directly to Richard Hakes, chair of Reed Smith’s Transportation Industry Group, who said: “We have been actively searching for someone who can provide analysis and policy intelligence, and who has a broad industry knowledge, in support of the attorneys and clients in our global group, and Julia is the perfect fit.
“Our clients in the transportation sector continuously have to adapt to the changing political, environmental, regulatory and technological landscape, especially over the past three turbulent years.
“Having Julia on board to provide significant industry intelligence, and specifically to analyze the market and strategize on the challenges and opportunities ahead, will provide great value to our clients and to our business.”
Norsetter, who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, said: “Reed Smith has a world-class reputation in the shipping and aviation space and I am thrilled to be joining such a group.
“With my support and long standing background in transportation, we will be able to enhance the support to clients, providing them with strategic advice that will allow us to harness market opportunities in the evolving transportation landscape.”
The transportation practice at Reed Smith covers legal needs for stakeholders in the industry, including owners, operators, manufacturers and investors, whether they move people or goods, by sea or by air, manufacture or invest in ships, aircraft, spacecraft or components, or anything else the future might hold.
In March, Richard Hakes talked in a podcast about Reed Smith’s role in the emerging eVTOL aircraft market and the impact COVID-19 has had on the aviation sector over the past two years.
Previously in January, Reed Smith released a report which analyses the changing aviation industry landscape following the COVID-19 pandemic and includes a report on the emerging eVTOL aircraft market.