The Wagner Law Group

06/02/2026

The latest edition of our Washington D.C. Benefits Bulletin is out! With excellent contributions from Camille Castro, Stephen Wilkes, Israel Goldowitz and Eric Keller! Please click below to read...

https://www.wagnerlawgroup.com/blog/2026/05/washington-d-c-office-benefits-bulletin-newsletter/

06/01/2026

Stephen J. Small, one of the nation’s leading authorities on private land protection options and strategies, will speaking about federal tax issues and recent relevant court decisions at the Land Trust Alliance Rally 2026: The National Land Conservation Conference, taking place in Denver, CO from September 16 - 19. Our firm is also very proud to serve as a sponsor of this great event. Please clock below for further details...
https://landtrustallianceinc.my.site.com/s/community-event?id=a2jUi000000RLzdIAG

05/28/2026

Congratulations to Andrew L. Oringer, Partner and General Counsel at our firm, on being named Chair of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Attorney Professionalism, a position he had also held previously! In addition to continuing his ERISA practice, he serves as a member of the Committee on Professional Ethics, which writes the NYSBA's ethics opinions...

05/27/2026

Marcia Wagner is quoted in this excellent PLANSPONSOR article discussing the use of AI for employee benefits plan documents and the very real risks associate with that...

https://www.plansponsor.com/ai-enters-erisas-document-heavy-world-promising-benefits-and-revealing-risks/

05/20/2026

Excited to welcome our new Chief Financial Officer, Jason Lindquist, to our firm! Jason comes to our firm with more than 25 years of executive leadership experience across finance, operations, technology, and organizational management...we are delighted that he is joining us!

05/19/2026

Please click below to read our Law Alert covering the U.S. Department of Labor's recently proposed regulation requiring certain fee disclosures and reporting for prescription drug coverage providers, designed to enhance group health plan fiduciary expense oversight...

https://www.wagnerlawgroup.com/blog/2026/02/proposed-pbm-fee-disclosure-regulations-a-major-gamechanger/

05/15/2026

Marcia Wagner and Stephen Rosenberg are quoted in this insightful Bloomberg article discussing the risks that retirement plan fiduciaries face when using AI tools in managing plan investments... Please click below to read.

The growing use of artificial intelligence tools in retirement investing is creating new pitfalls for employers that sponsor plans and the fiduciaries that manage those assets, requiring them to meet their legal duties while navigating the changing technological landscape.

05/14/2026

Camille Castro will be on a panel discussing how to handle missing plan participants at the IPEBLA 2oth Biennial Conference in Dublin, Ireland next week covering this important topic... Please click below for details.
https://www.ipebla.org/2026DublinBiennial

05/12/2026

Andrew Oringr is quoted in this Law360 article discussing President Trump's retirement savings initiatives... Please click below to read.

President Donald Trump's promise that workers whose employers don't contribute to their retirement savings will get access to the same type of retirement plan that federal employees have has caught the attention of benefits attorneys, who said they have numerous questions about what that might look....