regina m. markey

 

Since beginning her law practice in 2001, Ms. Markey, a partner with the firm, has concentrated on employment, employee benefit, and labor law.  She has argued as a federal appellate advocate, developed a successful ERISA claim against a National Football League benefit plan, pursued and settled employment claims, represented a prominent environmental whistleblower, advised the U.S. Congress on public safety officer benefit legislation, and was instrumental in a class action charging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its former administrator with Constitutional and statutory violations following 9/11 terrorist attacks on behalf of New York City residents, office workers, and students.  

 

Ms. Markey is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania, before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court in Maryland, and the U.S. Supreme Court.  Ms. Markey is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee, and the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association.  She graduated from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., J.D. (1992), and earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut. 

Prior to private practice, for more than a decade Ms. Markey’s primary professional focus was policies to protect ERISA and public employee pension funds, during which time she advised plans, trustees, labor organizations, and financial companies on related governance and programmatic investment issues.  For seven years Ms. Markey co-authored the leading labor union publication covering pension participant and investment issues. She analyzed domestic and foreign retirement systems, and actively promoted best practices for retirement funds through strategic advice, writing and presentations.

Ms. Markey has served as a plan representative to the Council of Institutional Investors; as an observer to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Law Drafting Committee on the Public Employee Retirement Fund Act; as a founder and coordinator of the Industrial Heartland Labor Investment Forum, a grassroots consortium examining private and public sector pension investment practices; and as an advisor in corporate shareholder accountability actions.

 Ms. Markey has spoken on retirement funds and ethics before the National Coalition of Public Safety Officers; the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys; the California Public Employee Retirement System Board of Trustees; the Communications Workers of America; the Connecticut Treasurer’s Stakeholders Conference; the AFL-CIO; and the Super 2000 Pension Conference in Sydney, Australia.  Ms. Markey was raised in Emerson, New Jersey and Ridgefield, Connecticut as one of eleven siblings.