Felicia A. Finston

Texas

Finston Friedman Fisher Law Group LLP
Galleria Tower III
13155 Noel Road – Suite 900
Dallas, TX 75240

Tel: (972) 638-8394

Email: ffinston@wifilawgroup.com
Web: www.wifilawgroup.com

Professional Biography

Felicia A. Finston has over 30 years of experience handling benefit and compensation issues for Fortune 500 and other public and private companies and tax-exempt entities. Felicia prides herself on developing and maintaining long-term relationships with her clients, such that she in essence serves in the capacity of an in-house benefits counsel for many of her clients.

Felicia regularly provides legal counsel on executive compensation design and regulatory compliance issues. An important part of her practice involves advising clients as to the tax reporting and income inclusion aspects of their qualified retirement plans and assisting clients with operational failures or governmental audits involving such plans.  Felicia also provides legal counsel on health plan compliance issues, including ACA, HIPAA and Medicare coordination of benefit matters.

Felicia is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2003-2025 and Who’s Who Legal: Texas, 2007-2008. She was honored by Best Lawyers as the 2015, 2011, and 2025 Dallas/Fort Worth Employee Benefits Lawyer of the Year (Best Lawyers-Methodology for Selection) and as the Dallas/Fort Worth Litigation-ERISA Lawyer of the Year (Best Lawyers-Methodology for Selection) for 2014, 2018 and 2020. She has also been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer in Employee Benefits/ERISA Law, 2004-2020, by Thomson Reuters; and one of the Top 50 Female Super Lawyers, 2007 through 2017, by Thomson Reuters; as well as one of the Top 100 Texas Lawyers, 2007 through 2012, by Thomson Reuters. D Magazine named Felicia one of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas” in ERISA Law, 2007-2020 and one of the “Top 50 Women Lawyers,” in 2010 and 2012. In 2003, the Bureau of National Affairs recognized her as a “Distinguished Author” for the BNA Pension Portfolio, “Plan Qualification – Pension and Profit Sharing Plans (Portfolio 351),” for which she is still a current author.

Education

  • J.D. (with honors), University of New Mexico School of Law, 1986
  • M.S. (with honors), Human Resources Management, University of Utah, 1983
  • B.S. (magna cum laude), Business (HR Management), Arizona State University, 1982

We are a Texas-based firm that provides advice on employee benefits, executive compensation and tax exempt organization law to hundreds of clients all over the country.

Our practice is broad-based and provides clients with a single resource for meeting their employee benefit legal needs. The firm’s attorneys act as outside employee benefits counsel for both publicly and privately held companies, tax-exempt employers, and governmental entities.

“Felicia Finston is widely respected for her expertise in employee benefits and executive compensation. She acts for clients before regulators and also advises clients on compliance issues involving qualified retirement and health plans as well as compensation arrangements.”
Chambers & Partners