Jeffrey Lewis is both Shareholder and founding Partner of Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson P.C. where he specializes in employee benefits law. Mr. Lewis has successfully litigated individual, group, and class action claims on behalf of hundreds of thousands of employees, retirees, and the disabled. This included acting as one of appointed counsel for of employees of WorldCom, Inc, which resulted in a settlement that paid more than $47 million to participants in WorldCom’s 401(k) plan.
Mr. Lewis serves as a mediator both for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and privately. He has served as an arbitrator and expert witness in ERISA cases. He has also advised employee groups and benefit plan fiduciaries. In addition to his litigation and advisory activities throughout the U.S., he has testified before Congressional committees regarding pension issues, and he teaches employee benefits law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and also has taught pension law courses at several other law schools.
Mr. Lewis is a graduate of Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
He is the Co-Chair of the Board of Senior Editors for the ABA/Bloomberg BNA treatise Employee Benefits Law.