Gregory C. Braden

Partner

Gregory C. Braden is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice. Mr. Braden concentrates his practice on ERISA litigation and has served as lead defense counsel in virtually every type of ERISA Title I class action claim including 401(k) proprietary fund and fees claims, cash balance plan claims, retiree benefits claims, severance pay claims, Title II based pension claims, and multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) claims and has appeared as counsel in over 140 ERISA cases. He has also practiced in the area of employee benefits, focusing on complex transactional issues such as employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) transactions.

Mr. Braden is ranked nationally in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers in Washington, D.C. (The Washington Post Magazine), is peer rated “AV” by Martindale Hubbell, and is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. He has lectured extensively on ERISA litigation topics, giving presentations to the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, the national Enrolled Actuaries meeting, the Law Education Institute, the ESOP Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Southern Employee Benefits Conference, and several other trade and professional organizations. Mr. Braden also served as an adjunct professor at Emory University Law School.

Mr. Braden is a Senior Associate Editor of the ABA’s Employee Benefits Law treatise and has written articles on employee benefits topics that have appeared in the Benefits Law Journal, the Journal of Compensation Planning and Compliance, and other trade publications. He has served as President of the Southern Employee Benefits Conference and a member of the ESOP Association.

Mr. Braden earned his J.D., with honors, from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1982, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and received the Dean's Academic Achievement Award and American Jurisprudence Awards. He earned his B.A., with honors, in mathematical economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1979.

Mr. Braden is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Georgia and has appeared before the federal courts of twenty-one states and several U.S. Courts of Appeals.