Robert E. Nagle

Since 1982, Robert E. Nagle has been in private law practice, specializing in employee benefit matters. In addition, he serves as an arbitrator, handling disputes involving benefit claims, multiemployer withdrawal liability issues, and grievances arising under collective bargaining agreements. Nagle has also, since 1985, been the chairman and neutral trustee of two multiemployer plans providing pension and health benefits for construction workers in the coal mining industry. He has, as well, served as a court-appointed trustee to supervise the liquidation of several employee benefit plans. From 1979 to 1982, Nagle was executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, where he was responsible for administering ERISA's termination insurance program and implementing the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980. As a former general counsel (1971 to 1974) of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, he was extensively involved in developing and drafting the original ERISA legislation. Nagle's prior government service includes some 10 years with the U.S. Department of Labor, where he was engaged in litigation to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Equal Pay Act. Nagle is a member of the pension and labor panels of the American Arbitration Association, and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's roster of arbitrators. He is also a member of the Bloomberg BNA Pension & Benefits Publications Advisory Board. Nagle is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Chicago Law School.

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