Employee Benefits

Our Employee Benefits Practice Group covers all areas of design and administration of employee benefit plans. Clients include plan sponsors, third party administrators, health care providers, trustees, and other fiduciaries and administrators of ERISA benefit plans.

Lawyers in the Group frequently represent plan sponsors in connection with Department of Labor and IRS audits, inquiries, and investigations concerning employee benefit plans of every nature. Our attorneys frequently litigate ERISA issues; both benefit claims by plan participants and beneficiaries and fiduciary claims under Title 1 of ERISA. Our ERISA experience includes the defense of service providers to plans and insurance carriers who provide benefits under employee group welfare benefits plans through insurance contracts.

Our benefits attorneys frequently counsel clients on employment agreement benefit issues and non-qualified compensation issues such as non-qualified deferred compensation plans, various forms of stock option plans, phantom stock plans, and any equity based compensation.

Our lawyers have extensive experience in compensation and benefit plans for non-profit entities.