This blog is a one lawyer show, meant to give me an opportunity to share information and thoughts on issues affecting my areas of practice.
As for me personally, I provide a full range of litigation and counseling services in ERISA, insurance coverage and bad faith, employee benefit, business dispute, and Chapter 93A matters to employers, executives, ERISA plan sponsors and fiduciaries, unions, insurers, startup founders, employees, service providers to benefit plans and others needing representation.
I have served as counsel to legal departments, retirement plan committees and CLOs. I have also represented executives in disputes over deferred compensation and retirement issues, employees and executives facing reductions in force, start up founders sued for copyright or patent infringement, private equity investors and founders facing claims arising out of complex transactions, employers sued for withdrawal liability when reducing the use of union labor, employers as well as employees in disputes over top hat plans, insurers sued for bad faith, fiduciaries and others facing Department of Labor investigations, and a host of other clients.
I have presented seminars and webinars on these issues to a variety of audiences, as well as published multiple articles on issues ranging from ERISA to IP litigation to insurance. I have been quoted as well in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
Among other work, I have:
1. Recovered millions of dollars for plan participants, executives and employees in ERISA class action, ESOP, denial of benefit and breach of fiduciary duty litigation, including multiple six and seven figure recoveries.
2. Tried a double-digit number of cases to verdict, including tort, construction accident, product liability, reinsurance, Chapter 93A, insurance bad faith, breach of contract, pierce the corporate veil, business tort and patent infringement cases.
3. Prosecuted a double-digit number of appeals in state and federal courts in multiple jurisdictions, including prevailing on multiple cases of first impression and reversing trial court judgments more than once.
4. Tried multiple Chapter 93A cases to verdict, including prevailing for a primary insurer in a twenty million dollar bad faith failure to settle suit.
5. Recovered millions of dollars for insurers in subrogation and coverage actions against other insurers.
6. Prosecuted and defended multiple class action cases, with one federal judge describing my work in an order as a “very good job in all respects.”
7. Tried multiple cases to verdict as defense counsel appointed to represent insureds by their insurers.
8. Successfully represented plan sponsors and fiduciaries in litigation against their service providers.
9. And likewise successfully represented service providers to benefit plans in litigation brought against them by their own plan sponsor clients.
And finally for current purposes:
10. Advised employers and their legal departments on the day in, day out legal and practical aspects of running their employee benefit plans, including advising on contracts with their third party administrators and investment advisors.