Who We Are

Cassie Springer Ayeni is the President of Springer Ayeni, A Professional Law Corporation. She represents people with disability benefit claims under ERISA. Cassie was the 2019-2022 Plaintiff’s Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) / Labor & Employment Law Section’s (LEL) Employee Benefits Committee and is currently a co-chair of the LEL Section’s Women’s Affinity Group. In 2022 she was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. She has served as a Liaison to the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession since 2022. She is also a co-founder of the Women Employee Benefits Attorneys affinity group.

In 2018, Cassie was a recipient of the Minority Bar Coalition’s 41st Annual “MBC Unity Award.” Cassie has been selected as a “Top 100” attorney in Northern California from 2015 to present by Super Lawyers Magazine, and “Top 50 Women” attorney in Northern California by the same publication from 2014 to present. She was also chosen as a “Top 40 under 40” attorney by the National Trial Lawyers in March 2014, a “Top 20 under 40” attorney in the state of California by the Daily Journal in January 2012, as well as one of 50 California attorneys “On the Fast Track” by the Recorder in June 2012.

 She is an active leader in the ABA, LEL, and Employee Benefits Committee, where she has repeatedly spoken at conferences, served as track coordinator, served on programming committees, and co-chaired committees including the Membership Services Committee, the Leadership Development Program Committee, the National Programs Committee, the Marketing Committee, and the Benefit Claims and Individual Rights Subcommittee. From 2013-2014, Cassie served as Governor-at-Large for the California Women Lawyers Board of Governors.