William T. Reid, IV (“Bill”), the senior founding partner of Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, is widely recognized as one of the top business trial lawyers in the nation. His work has resulted in precedent-setting case law protecting investors and holding wrongdoers accountable while obtaining billions of dollars in recoveries for his clients.
A true trial lawyer, Bill developed his national reputation for successfully litigating complex commercial and financial cases in private practice after a remarkable run as a federal prosecutor. He has tried a wide range of civil and criminal matters to verdict before judges and juries in a career spanning four decades.
In leading Reid Collins to its position as one of the nation’s go-to plaintiff firms, Bill has prosecuted a broad array of international cases involving insolvency-related disputes, professional malpractice, business torts, fraud, and financial transactions. He has handled multiple high-stakes actions arising out of Ponzi schemes, illegal transactions, insider misconduct, and cross-border frauds, as well as fiduciary litigation and bad-faith insurance actions. Further, Bill has established the firm as an industry leader in professional malpractice claims, achieving numerous public (as well as confidential) multi-million-dollar settlements against law firms, accounting firms, and directors & officers.
Bill’s reputation is affirmed annually by all major industry publications. Among other honors, Benchmark named Bill the “U.S. Plaintiff Litigator of the Year” and in 2021 Law360 honored him as a “Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar,” one of only a handful of litigators in the nation so recognized.
In September 2025, he published Amazon Best Seller, “Fighting Bullies: The Case for a Career in Plaintiffs’ Law.”
Additionally, Bill is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas Law School, teaching a course he created called Complex Financial Litigation, which takes a case study approach to teaching commercial litigation practice to law students.
Updated Oct 2025
