Press Release

Seven Attorneys from The Wagner Law Group to Be Recognized in 2022 Edition of the Best Lawyers in America©

Issued by The Wagner Law Group P.C.

Aug. 19, 2021

Boston, MA – The Wagner Law Group, widely recognized as the country’s top ERISA and employee benefits law firm, is delighted to announce that seven of its attorneys have been recognized as Best Lawyers® in the area of Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. 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, and Partners, Dan Brandenburg, Russell Gaudreau, Jr., Mark Poerio, Roberta Casper Watson, and Israel Goldowitz, who has also been named “Lawyer of the Year” in Washington, D.C. “We are honored to yet again achieve the extraordinary accomplishment of having this recognition bestowed on such a large number of our firm’s attorneys,” says Ms. Wagner.

Since it was first published in 1983, The Best Lawyers in America© has become 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 2022 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 for 2021 by U.S. News & World Report. 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.

The Wagner Law Group

The Wagner Law Group is a nationally recognized practice in the areas of ERISA, employee benefits and executive compensation, labor, employment and human resources, investment management, bankruptcy and restructuring, HIPAA, privacy and security, litigation, tax-exempt organizations, trusts and estates and family law.

 Established in 1996, The Wagner Law Group is dedicated to the highest standards of integrity, excellence and thought leadership and is considered to be amongst the nation's premier ERISA and employee benefits law firms. The firm has 11 offices across the country, providing unparalleled legal advice to its clients, including large, small and nonprofit corporations as well as individuals and government entities worldwide. The Wagner Law Group's 39 attorneys, senior benefits consultant and seven paralegals combine many years of experience in their fields of practice with a variety of backgrounds. The firm is recognized by U.S. News and World Report as a Tier 1 Best Law Firm in the areas of ERISA and employee benefits. Nine of the firm's attorneys are AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and nine are Fellows of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, an invitation-only organization of nationally recognized employee benefits lawyers. Seven of the firm's attorneys have been named to the prestigious Super Lawyers list for 2021, which highlights outstanding lawyers based on a rigorous selection process. The Wagner Law Group is certified as a woman-owned and operated business by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council. 

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