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Andrioff, Joni L.

Joni L. Andrioff - Washington, DC

Attorney at The Wagner Law Group

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ERISA & Employee Benefits Lawyers in Washington, DC

1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Second Floor Washington, DC 20006

202-969-2800 Call Now Email Website Website

Washington ERISA & Employee Benefits Lawyer

Updated: 03/16/2026

Areas of Practice

  • ERISA & Employee Benefits
  • Executive Compensation
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Retirement Plans
  • Employment Law

Attorney Information

Overview

Joni is recognized as a leader in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation law with over 35 years of working in partnership with employers, service providers, and ERISA fiduciaries. She has extensive experience in all aspects of tax-qualified retirement benefit plans, including design, administration, funding, correction, and termination of both defined contribution and defined benefit plans and ESOPs. She also provides counsel on ERISA fiduciary responsibility matters, prohibited transactions, missing participant issues, plan cybersecurity, corporate transactions, and general procedural prudence and governance.

In addition, Joni has worked on behalf of employers and executives in negotiating severance, employment and change-in-control agreements, and in implementing deferred compensation and equity-based compensation arrangements, both as ongoing performance incentives and in the context of corporate transactions.

She has served in leadership positions in various bar and professional organizations, most recently as president of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, and is admitted to practice law in Illinois and the District of Columbia. Prior to entering private practice, Joni clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

Education

  • Legal Education

    • Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1986
      J.D.

  • Non Legal Education

    • Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1980
      B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

  • Of Counsel

Past Positions

  • Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Law Clerk
  • Deloitte, Principal, Tax Services Group

Representative Cases

  • Continental Tire North America, Inc. and the United Steelworkers of America, Case No. 26-CA-21780 (NLRB)
  • McClintock et al. v. The BOC Group Cash Balance Retirement Plan, Case No. 01-CV-382 (S. D. Ill. 2001)
  • Acquisition by Cendant
  • Acquisition by Ripplewood Holdings
  • Acquisition of Air Intake Module and Air Filtration Business
  • Acquisition of American Fireplace and Allied Group
  • Acquisition of AMX
  • Acquisition of Best Access Systems
  • Acquisition of Blandin Paper
  • Acquisition of IMC Chemicals
  • Acquisition of Lindberg
  • Acquisition of National Manufacturing
  • Acquisition of Paoli
  • Acquisition of Rexam Release
  • Acquisition of Security Group
  • Acquisition of SPi Technologies
  • Appointment of an Independent Fiduciary for Company Stock Fund
  • Arlington International – Churchill Downs Merger
  • Disposition to Aslan Realty Partners
  • Employee Buyout of Appleton Papers Inc.
  • Sale of Hughes Electronics

Published Works

Articles

  • Attorney Joni Andrioff Joins The Wagner Law Group’s Washington D.C. Office – February 24, 2025
  • Same-Sex Marriages and Benefit Plans After Windsor, Thomson Reuters Westlaw Journal Employment, August 28, 2013
  • ABA's Taxation Section Argues for Testing Based on Eligibility Rather Than Participation, Bloomberg BNA Pension & Benefits Daily, August 8, 2012
  • EPCRS – Fixing Broken Qualified Plans - Speaker, Great Lakes Benefits Conference Internal Revenue Service and American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries June 24, 2011
  • Health Plan Embezzlement and Fraud: Prevention, Detection and response Strategies for Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries – Speaker, Teleconference, Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, American Bar Association, April 5, 2011
  • 2009 Legislative, Regulatory and Litigation Update – Speaker, WEB Chicago Chapter, December 2, 2009
  • Challenges in Compensating a Global Workforce – Speaker, Joint CLE Meeting, Tax Section – American Bar Association, September 26, 2009
  • Executive Compensation Audits – Are you Ready? – Speaker, Mid-Year Tax Section Meeting - American Bar Association, January 10, 2009

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois
  • District of Columbia

Other Affiliations

  • American Bar Association; former chair of the ABA Section on Taxation Employee Benefits Committee (2012); former chair of the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits
  • American College of Employee Benefits Counsel; Fellow (2008); executive committee (2018-present); president (2022 - 2024)
  • American Bar Association Retirement Fund; board of governors (2022 – present)
  • National ERISA Fiduciary Institute (JCEB), co-chair and speaker (2019 – 2023)

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