Benjamin Reilly

Experience Representative Experience Includes: Representing several financial services companies in nationwide ERISA class actions alleging that investment options in employee retirement plans had excessive fees and/or poor performance. These include several actions challenging mutual fund companies use of their own products as investment options in their own retirement plans; Representation of an investment management firm in ERISA class action in the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri, involving multi-week trial in 2018 regarding alleged breaches of fiduciary duty. Trial decision granted judgment for Goodwins clients on all counts and claims. In addition, Ben recently completed a five-month rotation with the Middlesex County (Massachusetts) District Attorneys Office, during which he was sworn in as a Special Assistant District Attorney and independently handled several jury and bench trials and argued evidentiary hearings and non-evidentiary motions before the Court. Read More