Adam H. Garner

  • The Garner Firm, Ltd.
    1515 Market Street, Suite 1200
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
  • 215-645-5955 Work267-702-4583 Mobile
  • adam@garnerltd.com Work
  • Website

Professional Experience

Adam H. Garner is the founder of The Garner Firm, Ltd., a boutique employee benefits and employment law firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represents employee benefit plan participants and their dependents in all facets of ERISA and employee benefits litigation and employees in employment disputes against their current and former employers.Prior to founding The Garner Firm, Adam served as the Administrator of two large multiemployer employee benefit plans in the Philadelphia area, as well as the President and Chief Executive Officer of their captive third-party plan administration business, which administered several additional retirement and welfare plans in the Philadelphia area. Before going in-house, Adam represented plan sponsors, plan administrators and claims administrators in employee benefits litigation, as well as management in employment and traditional labor matters at a large international law firm.

Adam is a Chapter Editor of the treatise Employee Benefits Law, Fourth Edition. He is
also a subcommittee co-chair of the ABA’s Section of Labor and Employment Law Employee
Benefits Committee and the 2020-2021 Chair of the ABA’s TIPS Health and Disability Insurance
Committee. Adam is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey, as well as before various federal courts.

Education

    • University of Miami School of Law

      Class of 2004
      Juris Doctor · Atlanta · GA

    • Goizueta Business School, Emory University

      Class of 2001
      Bachelor of Business Administration · Atlanta · GA
    • McDonogh School

      Class of 1997
      Owings Mills · MD

Practice Areas

  • Civil Litigation
  • Employment Law
  • Labor Law
  • Labor Law: Employment Discrimination
  • Pension: ERISA

Bar Admissions

    • 2004  Maryland
    • 2004  New Jersey
    • 2015  Pennsylvania