Deborah Judith Wiener
      Director

Deborah specializes in plan design, regulatory compliance, ERISA coverage, fiduciary liability issues, and trust fund administration. She works with multiemployer and union-sponsored plans and plan fiduciaries. Deborah has significant experience in devising legislative, contractual and plan design strategies for her clients to use in the highly regulated and managed care environments. Prior to devoting her practice to employee benefits, Deborah practiced labor law. She has litigated extensively in both state and federal court, and has 20 years of employee benefits experience in both the public and private sectors. As well as representing pension and health and welfare plans, including medical and disability plans, she has extensive experience representing legal defense plans and their fiduciaries. As a member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law, Deborah has served as co-chair of the Public Employee Plans and Welfare Plans Subcommittees. She has been a contributing author to and a chapter editor of the ABA Labor Section’s Employee Benefits Law, published by BNA.

Education

• J. D., 1970
  Hastings College of the Law
  University of California, San Francisco
  Member, Hastings Law Journal
• Bachelor of Science, 1967
  University of California, Berkeley

Professional Career

• 1997 - Present
  Member (Of Counsel prior to 2003)
  Trucker Huss
  San Francisco, California
• 1990 - 1997
  Partner & Associate
  Carroll, Burdick & McDonough
  San Francisco, California
• 1981 - 1985
  Partner & Associate
  Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld
  San Francisco, California
• 1973 - 1978
  Attorney
  United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO
  Imperial, San Joaquin, Ventura & Monterey Counties, California

Professional Licenses and Affiliations

• Member, The State Bar of California, Labor Section 
• Member, Bar Association of San Francisco
• Member, American Bar Association (member of Employee Benefits Committee of the Labor Section; previously Co-Chair, Public Employee Plans and Welfare Plan Subcommittees)
• Member, Western Pension & Benefits Conference
• Member, California Women Lawyers