Secunda joins Walcheske & Luzi as partner

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Paul M. Secunda, a former prominent Marquette University Law School professor, has joined Walcheske & Luzi as a partner, the firm announced on Monday.

Secunda will specialize in counseling, advising and litigating employee long-term disability, medical and retirement cases under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. He’ll also consult on labor and employment law cases.

In a press release, the firm said Secunda’s hire makes Walcheske & Luzi the first Wisconsin labor and employment law firm dedicated to all aspects of ERISA practice. The firm has offices in Brookfield and Appleton, but it serves the entire state.

Secunda has written extensively on labor and employment law, and he had lead Marquette Law’s Labor and Employment Law Program for about 10 years. He was suspended in 2018 over allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a student, which he denied.

Secunda previously served a three-year term on the Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council and as the chairman of the council in 2015. He’s an elected fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, American Law Institute, and the American Bar Foundation. He’s also the past national Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Section.

Secunda earned his law degree from Georgetown Law Center in 1997.