Paul Secunda

Milwaukee, WI

Paul M. Secunda
Walcheske & Luzi, LLC
235 N. Executive Dr., Suite 240
Brookfield, WI 53005
Phone: 414-828-2372
Fax: 262-565-6469
Email: psecunda@walcheskeluzi.com

Attorney Secunda, a former law professor, joined full-time the premier labor and employment law boutique in Milwaukee, Walcheske & Luzi, LLC, in May 2020. There, he has developed the only employee-focused ERISA class action litigation practice in Wisconsin. He advises, counsels, and litigates breach of fiduciary claims involving retirement and welfare plans.

Secunda taught at Marquette University Law School for 12 years, after six years on the faculty of the University of Mississippi School of Law. He taught Employee Benefits (social security) and Pension Law, Labor Law, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Education Law, Civil Procedure, and Trusts & Estates.

In 2013, U.S. Secretary of Labor Solis appointed Secunda to a three-year term to the Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council, where he advised the Department on employee benefit law issues involving retirement and welfare benefit plans. In 2014, he was named Vice-Chair of the ERISA Advisory Council, and in 2015, he served as its Chair.

Secunda’s legal scholarship, including seven book and over 70 law review articles and short pieces, centers on international and comparative analyses of employee rights to employee benefits, as well as on the civil liberties and civil rights of employees, with a focus on public employees’ constitutional speech, privacy, and associational rights.

Secunda was in Australia in 2015 as both a Senior Fulbright Scholar focusing on a comparative analysis of the Australian Superannuation Guarantee and as a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, teaching a class in Comparative Superannuation (Pension) Law. He taught that class a second time in 2017. In addition to the ACEBC, Secunda has been an elected member of both the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation.

Fiduciary/Other Title I Issues

Although primarily a practicing attorney for employee class actions under ERISA involving excessive Plan fees and other breach of fiduciary issues, I have been a consultant, testifying expert, and speak on a number of fiduciary, denial of benefit, and discrimination/retaliation issues. I have written over ten law review articles and chapters in treatises in books on these issues. I have completed over three dozen presentations on every aspect of fiduciary duties and have served as Chair on the ERISA Advisory Council, where we focused on improving fiduciary law. I have been either a testifying or non-testifying expert in close to a dozen cases.

DC Plans

I have filed over thirty class action lawsuits against some of the largest DC plans in the country, seeking to recoup for employees retirement monies lost to excessive recordkeeping, managed account, service provider, and investment fees. I have collected over $15 million in settlement monies for Participant classes.