Shyrell A. Reed

Shyrell Reed maintains a robust complex litigation practice, primarily in the areas of medical malpractice defense, risk management issues, professional liability, premises liability, and workers' compensation. Shyrell’s healthcare practice is focused on the vigorous defense of defending physicians, nurses, hospitals, dialysis centers, long term care facilities, and other health care providers against medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death claims filed in both state and federal courts. With 20 years of litigation experience, she has defended practitioners in virtually every medical specialty. She also represents health care providers in disciplinary matters before various licensing boards of the Virginia Department of Health Professions.

Shyrell is listed in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for professional malpractice law (defendants). In 2022, Shyrell was named by Virginia Lawyers Weekly as one of their Influential Women of the Law and also as a “Go to Lawyer” for medical malpractice. She has also been selected as a Virginia Super Lawyers Rising Star in the field of medical malpractice defense – a distinction presented to less than 2.5% of attorneys in Virginia. On multiple occasions, Shyrell has been recognized for her trial successes in Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s Million Dollar Defense Verdicts.

Shyrell is an active member of the USLAW network and serves as USLAW’s vice chair of the Medical Law practice group. She has participated in a number of educational panels at USLAW Law forums and served as co-chair for its Women’s Connection Business Development Forum in the fall of 2023.

In 2018, Shyrell was selected as a fellow for the Leadership Counsel on Legal Diversity, and she continues to participate as an alumnus of the program. Shyrell previously served as Moran Reeves Conn’s first Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, and as Chair of the firm’s Summer Associate Program.

Prior to joining Moran Reeves Conn, Shyrell served as an extern for The Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as well as an extern for The Honorable Monica J. Benton of the U.S. District Court for Western Washington. She also clerked for The Honorable Charles W. Mertel of King County Superior Court. Further, Shyrell has worked as a deputy prosecuting attorney for King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, as well as a medical malpractice defense litigator at an Am Law 200 law firm.