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Employee Benefits

Employee benefits costs have increased so rapidly that they now often represent more than 30% of total compensation expense. Employers seeking to retain a skilled workforce confront the challenges of designing and maintaining attractive, yet cost-efficient benefit plans, while complying with a constantly expanding body of federal, state and local laws and regulations.

 Our Approach

The attorneys in our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice group counsel employers in designing, implementing and administering all types of employee benefit plans and compensation arrangements. We have extensive experience with tax-qualified retirement plans, deferred compensation arrangements, executive compensation programs, as well as health, life and disability insurance, severance pay and fringe benefits plans. Our Benefits & Compensation attorneys also work closely with our Business & Corporate attorneys to assist clients with employee benefits issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and initial public offerings, as well as with succession planning and design of executive incentive and retention compensation arrangements.

Our clients include public and private for-profit employers, non-profit organizations and governmental entities. We assist plan sponsors in designing, adopting, administering, amending and terminating all types of employee benefit plans. We represent employers in the wide variety of legal matters that arise in sponsoring a plan, such as contracts with service providers and fund managers, employee benefits litigation and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

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