ELI GOTTESDIENER

Eli Gottesdiener has practiced law for nearly 25 years in a wide variety of settings and along all points of the spectrum. He spent five years representing Fortune 500 companies in commercial disputes and seven years representing indigent criminal defendants before concentrating on pension work and more particularly the representation of participants in private employer-sponsored employee benefit plans in class actions brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”).

Mr. Gottesdiener received his law degree, cum laude, in 1987 from Georgetown University Law Center where he served as an Associate Editor of The Georgetown Law Review. He holds a Magistère (master's degree equivalent) from the Sorbonne (Université de Paris-IV) and B.A. from The American University, School of International Service where he was a Presidential Scholar.

Mr. Gottesdiener has lectured and written extensively on class action and ERISA topics. He has testified before the Secretary of Labor's ERISA Advisory Council, spoken at dozens of ERISA and class action conferences and seminars about his work, and authored numerous articles.

Mr. Gottesdiener can be contacted directly at: eli@gottesdienerlaw.com.