Romi Honig - Law Office

Romi Honig - Law Offices is a leading boutique law firm specializing in national insurance (social security) law and adjacent areas of labor law. The firm’s founder, Adv. Romi Honig, who ranks among Israel’s leading experts in her field, has gained 26 years of professional expertise in managing complex cases, with a record of landmark legal precedents in principled cases, alongside thousands of hours of appearances before the various judicial instances. Adv. Honig serves as Chair of the National Insurance Forum and Chair of the Attorneys’ Fees Committee at the Israel Bar Association.

Adv. Honig has unique expertise in managing medical-occupational crises, together with extensive experience in all types of proceedings vis-a-vis the National Insurance Institute and in proceedings for the realization of rights vis-a-vis pension funds, insurance companies and the Ministry of Defense, including appearances before medical committees and representation before the various judicial instances - the Regional and National Labor Courts, the civil courts, the Supreme Court and the High Court of Justice, and legal tribunals - as well as in mediation and arbitration proceedings. Adv. Honig lectures in the Bar Association’s continuing-education programs and before insurance companies, employers, human-resources departments and workers’ committees, and is asked to submit expert opinions in her field to the courts.

The firm specializes in national insurance law and in the realization of rights vis-a-vis the Ministry of Defense, provident and pension funds and the income tax authorities, as well as in personal injury claims, liability claims, road accidents and loss-of-working-capacity insurance policies. The firm’s many proven successes are reflected in securing recognition of its clients’ rights, on both the medical and the legal plane.
The firm provides its clients with personal service rendered by Adv. Honig herself, within a comprehensive envelope of services, including representation in proceedings against the employer and before medical and other committees - all based on the understanding that one must first obtain a full picture of the crisis the client is facing, and only then identify the best solution for them. Accordingly, the firm first maps the client’s rights, and only thereafter acts to realize and exhaust them, with determination and professionalism and with a long-term view of each case.

The firm also handles the determination of the status and rights of common-law spouses, as well as residency determinations. In addition, the firm provides a holistic legal envelope of claims against the employer, the National Insurance Institute and the tortfeasor in the field of labor relations, in various matters including employee-employer status, sexual harassment, and workplace bullying and abuse.

26 Years of Professional Excellence

Drawing on her 26 years of experience, Adv. Honig founded the firm out of a profound understanding of national insurance law, translating into the maximization of her clients’ rights and the construction of a well-planned strategy. One of Adv. Honig’s unique strengths derives from her Medicine-for-Lawyers studies, which constitute added value for her clients. The firm offers its clients a combination of legal knowledge, medical knowledge, professional experience, seniority, and established working relationships with government institutions, the National Insurance Institute and insurance companies. In addition, the firm maintains a high-quality professional infrastructure and a network of relationships with medical and paramedical experts.
Adv. Honig is also a certified mediator, and uses these skills to resolve disputes with the National Insurance Institute so as to secure the maximum rights for her clients within minimum time. Adv. Honig appears before all labor courts in Israel, acts out of a sense of mission, and is known as an attorney who leads seemingly hopeless cases to sweeping victories.
As part of the comprehensive envelope of services it provides to its clients, the firm practices labor law, litigating claims against employers on grounds of unlawful dismissal and the dismissal of persons with disabilities. Adv. Honig’s professional creativity is evident in the unique proceedings she leads, such as representation in a claim for the recognition of rape and sexual harassment as a work accident, and representation in an appeal following the dismissal of a claim by the labor court due to failed representation.

Adv. Romi Honig

Adv. Honig serves as Chair of the National Insurance Forum and Chair of the Attorneys’ Fees Committee at the Israel Bar Association, and has been active in the Bar’s committees since joining as a volunteer ten years ago. Adv. Honig provides opinions on legislation in the field of national insurance and promotes ground-breaking processes in the field. She works to strengthen the ties between attorneys and the labor courts and the managers of the National Insurance Institute’s branches and departments, through round-table meetings, study days and continuing-education programs that she initiates.
Adv. Honig engages in matters of broad impact on the field and in shaping the Bar Association’s policy within the framework of her activity in the National Forum, including position papers on bills in the field of national insurance and representing the Bar before the Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee in deliberations on legislation. The National Forum’s activity is charged, inter alia, with consolidating the professional standing of attorneys and drawing the distinction between them and “rights-realization companies,” whose activity the Supreme Court has held to constitute unauthorized encroachment on the legal profession.
Adv. Honig has appeared before Knesset committees, including the Labor and Welfare Committee, in connection with legislative amendments in the field of national insurance, as well as in deliberations on bills to cap attorneys’ fees in the fields of national insurance and long-term care. Adv. Honig is among the initiators and coordinators of the first conference of the National Insurance Forum, “Medicine and Law - Not Just Black and White,” held in Eilat, and has coordinated and moderated additional panels and professional training sessions at the Bar Association’s district and national conferences. Adv. Honig takes part in volunteer consultation days at various organizations, among them the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. In November and December 2023 she initiated training days on the rights of victims of hostile acts and served as their academic coordinator, similar to the training programs she initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adv. Honig was a member of the founding team and of the editorial board of “HaPosek,” the first professional journal in the field of national insurance, within the framework of her activity in the Bar Association’s National Forum. Adv. Honig mentors and advises young attorneys on a volunteer basis, out of a sense of mission and love for the profession.

Selected Precedents

The firm has numerous precedents to its credit, among them a landmark ruling under which court-appointed experts may not sit as adjudicators on the medical committees. In addition, the firm represented a young mother in a precedent-setting case in which it was held that the National Insurance Institute may not take the law into its own hands and deduct disability percentages on the basis of internal guidelines - a precedential judgment that struck down a practice of the National Insurance Institute, accompanied by sharp criticism of its conduct.