Cohen & Grigsby Announces Appointment of Marty Wagner to the Firm's ERISA and Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation Groups

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cohen & Grigsby, a business law firm with headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA and an office in Bonita Springs, FL, is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Martha Jo ("Marty") Wagner as a director in the firm's ERISA and Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation Groups.  In this role, she provides practical business solutions, emphasizing cost containment and legal risk management, to complex benefit problems.

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Prior to joining Cohen & Grigsby, Wagner was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Venable LLP where she led teams of company personnel, lawyers, and consultants that: assessed the risks of reducing retiree health benefits for a client with more than 100 retiree health plans and hundreds of millions of dollars in long-term liabilities; created a disciplined, systematic and automated health contract review process for a client with more than 300 benefit designs and more than 65 health care vendors; and designed and implemented more than a half dozen voluntary and involuntary severance programs offered simultaneously to almost 10,000 employees.  She is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, serves as a frequent speaker on diverse benefit topics, and is the past Management Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law Employee Benefits Committee.

Wagner received her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland.

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