Reed Smith has given hope to millions by announcing the creation of its Global Ebola Task Force.

In a press release the firm informed a grateful world that it has recruited lawyers from "many of the firm's industry and practise groups" to form the impressive-sounding Global Ebola Task Force. It will be led by Patrick E Bradley, a partner in the firm's Princeton, New Jersey office who specialises in aviation and product liability. According to the firm's press release, it seems Bradley is now known to members of the firm, some of its more gullible clients and his mum as Ebola Task Force Leader Bradley.


  Bradley's new business cards, yesterday

However, although it is named like an emergency aid organisation and its team have given each other titles straight out of International Rescue, the Global Ebola Task Force is not distributing vaccines or building hospitals. Instead it is providing help to the tragically overlooked victims of Ebola: global corporate clients. Reed Smith’s Global Managing Partner Sandy Thomas explained that “Commerce today is fully globalized, and threats to global commerce, such as the Ebola virus, often spawn complex legal issues that require a seamless, integrated approach”.

RollOnFriday is so impressed with the firm's desperate promotion of its international bona fides by piggybacking a disease which is causing thousands of people to bleed to death, that it has committed to deliver an orange protective body suit discreetly plastered with RoF logos to any celebrity willing to wear it in public.
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Anonymous 30 October 14 11:20

This is the most cringeworthy thing I have ever seen. I am embarrassed on the firm's behalf!