Biden’s Employee Benefits Pick Boasts Outsider Perspective (3)

President Joe Biden‘s nominee to oversee private-sector employee benefits would be a Washington newcomer, but Lisa Gomez is armed with a wealth of experience representing the very union-backed plans the administration has pledged to protect.

Gomez, a New York-based partner at Cohen, Weiss & Simon LLP, was nominated late last month to serve as assistant secretary for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, a U.S. Labor Department agency that regulates voluntary workplace health and retirement plans.

Cohen, Weiss & Simon has deep ties to some of the nation’s biggest unions, and Gomez has personally represented many of them in benefits ...