Romi Honig - Law Office

Romi Honig - Law Offices is a leading boutique law firm that specializes in the fields of national insurance and tangent areas of labor law. Adv. Romi Honig, the firm’s founder and a leader in her field, has gained over 23 years of professional expertise in managing complex cases and has a track record of pioneering legal precedents, with thousands of hours spent in various courts. Adv. Honig serves as the chair of the Bar Association’s National Insurance Forum and Wage Committee.

Adv. Honig has unique expertise in managing medical crises in the workplace as well as extensive experience in all types of proceedings against the National Insurance Institute and in proceedings for realization of rights against pension funds, insurance companies, and the Ministry of Defense. This includes appearances in medical committees and representation in various courts, both regional and national, civil courts, the Supreme Court, and labor courts, along-side mediation and arbitration proceedings. Adv. Honig lectures at the Bar Association’s continuing educational programs, before insurance companies, employers, human resources departments, and committees, and is often asked to provide her expert opinion to the court.

The firm specializes in national insurance law and realization of rights including the Ministry of Defense, provident funds, pensions, income tax, personal injury claims, liabilities, road accidents, and loss of work capacity policies. The firm’s success rates are shown in the recognition in its clients’ rights, both medically and legally.
The firm provides its clients with tailored and comprehensive services, including representation in proceedings against employers and in medical committees, understanding that initially, a comprehensive picture of the crisis the client is facing must be obtained before finding the best solution. Therefore, the firm first maps out the rights, and only then works to enforce and maximize them, with determination, professionalism, and a long-term view of each case.

The firm also determines status and rights of public figures and residency determinations. In addition, the firm provides a holistic legal package of claims against employers, National Insurance Institute, and perpetrators in labor relations, including various issues such as employee-employer relationships, sexual harassment, bullying, and harassment at the workplace.

23 Years of Professional Excellence

Given her 23 years of experience, Adv. Honig established the firm from the profound understanding of national insurance laws, resulting in maximizing her clients’ rights and creating a well-planned strategy. One of Adv. Honig’s unique strengths stems from her medical studies for lawyers, which adds value to her clients. The firm offers its clients a combination of legal and medical knowledge, experience, expertise, and working relationships with government agencies, national insurance, and insurance companies. Additionally, the firm maintains a network of relationships with medical and para-medical experts.

Adv. Honig acts as a mediator, resolves disputes with national insurance to achieve maximum rights for her clients in minimal time. Adv. Honig appears in all courts, acting out of a sense of duty and is known as a lawyer who leads cases that seem hopeless to a compelling victory. The firm deals with labor law, lawsuits against employers for wrongful termination, and dismissals of disabled individuals. Adv. Honig’s professional creativity is evident in unique proceedings, such as representation in a lawsuit recognizing sexual assault and harassment as a workplace accident, and an appeal against the dismissal of a claim in court due to unsuccessful representation.

Adv. Romi Honig

Adv. Honig serves as the Chair of the National Insurance Forum and of the Wage Committee at the Bar Association. and actively participates in committees after volunteering in them 8 years ago. She provides opinions on legislation in the field of national insurance and promotes revolutionary processes. Adv. Honig works to strengthen relationships between lawyers and labor courts, and managers of branches and departments of National Insurance Institute through meetings, seminars, and training sessions she initiates.

Adv. Honig defines the Bar Association’s policy within the framework of her activities in the national forum, such as position papers regarding legislative proposals in the field of national insurance and representing the Bar Association in the Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee discussions on laws. The national committee’s activity, among other things, focuses on establishing professional status of lawyers and creating a distinction between them and “rights enforcement companies”, which the Supreme Court has determined as exceeding boundaries of the profession.
Adv. Honig appeared before Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee regarding amendments to legislation in the field of national insurance. Adv. Honig participates in consultation days voluntarily in various associations, including one of nine, and the Kassam Association of Tel Aviv Municipality, initiating training days in November and December 2023 on the rights of victims of hate crimes, serving as an academic coordinator, similar to the training sessions she initiated during COVID-19 pandemic. Adv. Honig was part of the founding team and member of the editorial board of the first professional journal in the field of national insurance called “HaPosek,” as part of her activities in the national forum of the Bar Association. Adv. Honig accompanies and advises young lawyers voluntarily out of a sense of duty and love for the profession.

Prominent Achievements

The firm has many significant achievements, such as a landmark ruling stating experts appointed by the court cannot serve as judges in medical committees. Additionally, representing a young mother in a precedent-setting case, where it was determined The National Insurance Institute cannot make a law for itself and deduct percentages of disability on the basis of internal guidelines. This is a pioneering ruling that overturned the common practice of National Insurance Institute, with sharp criticism of the National Insurance Institute.