Firm: The Wagner Law Group A Professional Corporation
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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Firm: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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Firm: Ropes & Gray
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
Mala is the managing partner at Rosenfeld & Rafik, P.C., a law firm in New England representing clients denied access to health care as well as individuals seeking short- and long-term disability, life and long-term care benefits from private insurance carriers. Mala’s clients are typically individuals with debilitating chronic illnesses and disabilities for whom she has achieved several pivotal litigation victories in state and federal court. She has also has represented several nonprofit organizations whose mission is to foster or provide excellent health care for people in Massachusetts.. Mala is a past Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the American Association for Justice, a Vice-Chair of the Health and Disability Law Committee and a Vice-Chair of the Life Insurance General Committee within the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, a Sub-Committee Co-Chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Section, a co-chair of the Federal Bar Association’s Massachusetts Chapter of the Employment Law, Social Security & Disability Law Committee, a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers Board of Governors, a Fellow of the American Bar Association, a member of the Health Law Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and a former member of the Juvenile and Child Welfare Section Council and General Practice, Solo, and Small Firm Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association, a former member of the Boston Bar Association Council, a former Chair and current member of the Legal Referral Services section of the Boston Bar Association, and a former Chair of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Section of the Boston Bar Association. She is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of Health Law Advocates, a member of the Board of Directors of Prisoner’s Legal Services and a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation. Mala has been both a Massachusetts Rising Star and Super Lawyer in Boston Magazine since 2007, and was named a 2006 Up & Coming Lawyer, a 2012 Top Women of Law honoree and a 2015 Circle of Excellence honoree by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. From 2013 to 2017, Mala has been named one of the top 50 women lawyers in Massachusetts by Super Lawyers. From 2014 to 2017, Mala was named one of the top 50 women lawyers in New England and one of the top 100 lawyers in Massachusetts by Super Lawyers. In 2015, Mala was honored as one of the top 100 lawyers in New England by Super Lawyers.. Mala taught Disability Law at New England Law and is a graduate of Colby College and Northeastern University School of Law.
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Firm: The Wagner Law Group PC
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
Many years devoted to the practice of employee benefits law, including experience on American Bar Association committees and employee benefits councils, allowed me to build an extensive background in ERISA, employee benefits and executive compensation. Although I do a full range of employee benefits work, I have a strong interest in health plans, and have done much work in the rules for COBRA, HIPAA, Medicare Secondary Payor and other health plan issues. At the nationally renowned Wagner Law Group, I now head the Welfare Benefits Department, where we help clients deal with the Affordable Care Act among other health and welfare plan issues.I also have a great deal of experience with pension and profit sharing plans, 401(k) plans, life and disability insurance plans, ERISA fiduciary law, employee stock ownership plans, deferred compensation, ERISA litigation support and employee benefit aspects of family law.I am active in the American Bar Association, where I was Chair of both the Tax Section Employee Benefits Committee and the Health Law Section Employee Benefits Interest Group. I was also Chair of the ABA’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits and Charter Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. I also served on a Task Force created by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services to implement the CHIPRA notice requirements. For many years, I was on the board of Northside Community Mental Health Center, and was its president in 1999-2001.I've been AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell and was listed in Best Lawyers in America for Employee Benefits Law since 1995. I was also listed in Florida Super Lawyers for 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. For 2012, I was designated by Best Lawyers as the Tampa Lawyer of the Year for Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law.I earned my law degree from Harvard Law School in 1974 after graduating from the University of Idaho in 1971 cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science.
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Firm: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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Firm: Aileen Torrance
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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Firm: South Coastal Counties Legal Services
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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Firm: Boston Scientific Corporation
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
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