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Boston, MA, August 17, 2023 – The Wagner Law Group, widely recognized as the country’s top ERISA and employee benefits law firm, is delighted to announce that 11 of its attorneys will be recognized as Best Lawyers® in the  2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^©, in practice areas including, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Litigation - Labor and Employment, and Labor Law – Management.  These exceptional attorneys include  Marcia Wagner, the firm’s founder and Managing Director, Thomas E. Clark Jr., Partner and the firm’s Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Oringer, Partner and the firm’s General Counsel, and Partners Harold Ashner, David Gabor, Russell Gaudreau, Jr., Israel Goldowitz, Mark Poerio, Linda Rosenzweig and Roberta Casper Watson.  “We are extraordinarily proud that such a large percentage of our firm’s attorneys continues to be listed among The Best Lawyers in America^©,” says Ms. Wagner. The Best Lawyers in America^© is widely regarded as a respected reference guide to legal excellence.  Recognition by Best Lawyers® is based solely on confidential peer review. The rigorous methodology utilized for recognition is designed to capture the consensus of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of colleagues within the same country and legal practice area.  Best Lawyers® employs a sophisticated and transparent survey process that is tailored to elicit meaningful and substantive evaluations of the quality of legal services provided by attorneys.  The Best Lawyers in America^© recognizes the top 5% of private practicing lawyers in the United States and is commonly used by consumers in need of legal services to identify the most qualified attorneys based on legal expertise, ethical standards, and professionalism.  The 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^© will be distributed in more than 30 leading publications around the country, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The Wagner Law Group has also been nationally ranked, as well as locally ranked in Boston and Washington, D.C., as a Tier 1 Best Law Firm in the area of Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law in the U.S. News & World Report – Best Lawyers® most recently published "Best Law Firms" list.  Firms that receive this ranking are recognized for professional excellence with consistently high ratings from clients and peers.  Achieving a tiered ranking signifies a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.  ]]> by tclark https://www.wagnerlawgroup.com/?p=54268 2025-11-09T00:59:33Z 2022-01-26T18:13:51Z

American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Fellows of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC^®) are selected by the College's Board of Governors from among employee benefits attorneys nominated for that honor and recommended for consideration by the Board's Membership Committee after considering the recommendations of regional screening committees and meeting its strict membership criteria. Our firm, now with 11 ACEBC^® Fellows among our 46 lawyers, has more ACEBC^® Fellows, by a wide margin, than any other law firm nationwide, including those with thousands of lawyers. Our 11 ACEBC^® Fellows are Marcia Wagner, Harold Ashner, Dan Brandenburg, Ivelisse Berio LeBeau Russell A. Gaudreau, Israel Goldowitz, Mark Poerio, Susan Rees, Linda Rosenzweig, Barry Salkin and Roberta Casper Watson. Three of our firm’s members, Dan Brandenburg, Linda Rosenzweig and Roberta Casper Watson, are Charter Fellows of the College, having been inducted in the first class of Fellows at its inaugural gala dinner at the World Trade Center in New York City on July 8, 2000. To qualify for membership as a Fellow of the ACEBC^®, an individual must: have at least 20 years of experience as an employee benefits practitioner following admission to the practice of law, in the private sector (including law firm, in-house corporate, tax-exempt organization or consulting), government or academic setting; have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the development and pursuit of public awareness and understanding of the law of employee benefits, through such activities as writing, speaking, participating in public policy analysis, public education or public service and representation projects, and leadership in the employee benefits activities of bar associations or other professional organizations; have consistently exhibited exemplary character and ethical behavior, with no discipline record with any professional or governmental body for departing from ethical or professional standards; and, be generally recognized by his or her peers for expertise in the field and intellectual excellence. The ACEBC^® is dedicated to elevating the standards and advancing the public's understanding of the practice of employee benefits law. In pursuit of this goal, it encourages the study and development of employee benefits laws, initiates professional discussions of significant employee benefits issues, and sponsors an extensive list of Continuing Legal Education programs. Our firm’s 11 Fellows exemplify the ACEBC^®’s goals and play a large part in furthering those goals both through their practice of law in every aspect of the realm of employee benefits, as well as by way of activities such as article and book authorship, speaking at a wide variety of seminars and webinars, serving on relevant committees and boards of bar associations and other professional organizations, and teaching employee benefits topics at various academic institutions.]]>