James P. Baker is a partner at Baker & McKenzie law firm, boasting over three decades of experience on ERISA litigation and the counseling of employers on employee benefit and executive compensation issues. In 2012, he was named San Francisco’s ERISA Litigation Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America and he has enjoyed other such impressive notifications including one of the country’s best 40 ERISA lawyers by National Law Journal. Baker is co-chair of the American Bar Association’s ERISA and Pension Litigation Subcommittee of the Committee on Business and Corporate Litigation as well as being a volunteer attorney for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel. At Baker & McKenzie, he focuses on ERISA litigation; ERISA employer counseling; employee benefit; executive compensation issues and a client representative in federal districts and appellate courts throughout America. He has defended various ERISA plan fiduciaries and secured many favorable precedents. He was the lead attorney in five ERISA stock drop class action cases resulting in consecutive client victories using five different legal theories.