Press Release

Chambers USA Recognizes The Wagner Law Group and Attorneys Harold Ashner, Eric Keller, Andrew Oringer, Roberta Casper Watson and Stephen Wilkes

Issued by The Wagner Law Group P.C.

June 8, 2026

We are honored to share that our Washington, D.C. office has been ranked by Chambers USA in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation law for 2026, and we congratulate our colleagues, Harold Ashner, Eric Keller, Andrew Oringer, Roberta Casper Watson and Stephen Wilkes who have also been recognized individually in the publication. 

Since 1990, Chambers & Partners has been ranking the best law firms and lawyers around the world. Chambers enlists a dedicated team of independent researchers in order to produce its annual rankings. This method ensures that its outcomes are trusted and credible.

Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, our firm continues to be dedicated to the highest standards of integrity, excellence and thought leadership, and is considered to be the nation’s preeminent ERISA and employee benefits law firm. We provide unparalleled legal advice to our clients, including large, small and nonprofit corporations as well as individuals and government entities nationwide and in several foreign countries. Our firm’s attorneys combine many years of experience in their fields of practice and include those who are AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and are named annually to prestigious Best Lawyers® and Super Lawyers lists. The Wagner Law Group is certified as a woman-owned and operated business by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council and has been listed among the largest woman-owned businesses in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal.

Our firm’s nationally recognized ERISA and employee benefits practice contains highly focused and specialized practice areas, including: Fiduciary Compliance, Retirement Plans, ESOPs, Executive Compensation & Nonqualified Plans, Welfare Benefit Plans, PBGC, Taft-Hartley Trusts and Retiree Medical Trusts™. Our firm’s practice areas also include Employment, Labor & Human Resources, Investment Management, Bankruptcy and Restructuring, HIPAA, Privacy & Security, Expert Witness, Mergers & Acquisitions, Legislative, Regulatory & Policy Services, Tax Exempt Organizations, Litigation, Independent Fiduciary Services, Trusts & Estates, Probate and Family Law, Real Estate Law, and Ethics Resources. We routinely address issues involving defined benefit pension plans, profit sharing and 401(k) plans, ESOPs, multiemployer plans, Davis-Bacon plans, prototype and other pre-approved plans, voluntary employees’ beneficiary associations (VEBAs), cafeteria plans, group medical and health plans (including ACA, HIPAA and COBRA), qualified domestic relations orders, qualified medical child support orders, and qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation programs.

Attorneys at our firm have considerable experience assisting clients in all aspects of establishing, operating, merging and terminating benefit plans and executive compensation arrangements, and explaining the application of labor, tax and securities laws and regulations to sponsors of employee benefit plans and executive compensation programs. They have also designed individualized transactional compliance systems to enable employers to comply with ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code. Our attorneys regularly advise clients on the application of the fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA to various types of transactions and investments, and represent clients in requests for individual and industry-wide (class) exemptions from the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA. 

We have also developed a unique fiduciary audit practice under which our attorneys review the operation of clients’ benefit plans, and also assist clients in locating, selecting and engaging investment advisers for their retirement plans. Our attorneys have successfully represented innumerable clients before the Department of Labor, the IRS and the PBGC in audits, examinations and settlement negotiations.

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