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ML BeneBits is a comprehensive blog that covers the waterfront of topics related to employee benefits and executive compensation—from plan design, qualification, and documentation matters to fiduciary questions, ERISA Title I investment issues, payroll tax, fringe benefits issues, executive compensation trends, and health and welfare benefits compliance. We also discuss the unique challenges that multiemployer plans and their contributing employers, tax-exempt entities, and governmental employers face. Our authors cover key regulatory, legal, and legislative developments in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation and come primarily from our employee benefits and executive compensation practice as well as from other practice areas.

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Robert L Abramowitz

Robert L. Abramowitz

Partner

Philadelphia +1.215.963.4811

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation; ; Cybersecurity, Incident Response & Privacy; ; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation

Craig A. Bitman

Partner

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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; ; Multiemployer Plans; Capital Markets & Public Companies; Investment Management; Private Equity; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation; Institutional Investors; ESG & Sustainability Advisory; Secondary Transactions

Summer M. Blackburn

Senior Client Employee Benefit Advisor

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5548

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Multiemployer Plans

Claire E. Bouffard

Of Counsel

Pittsburgh +1.412.560.7421

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ;

Samuel P. Bryant

Associate

Philadelphia +1.215.963.4657

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation; ; Investment Management; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity; Capital Markets & Public Companies

Carley Clark

Senior Attorney

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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation;

Althea R. Day

Partner

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5366

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Multiemployer Plans; Executive Compensation; ; Mergers & Acquisitions; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation; Healthcare Transactions

Leslie E. DuPuy

Of Counsel

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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Employment Counseling; ; Mergers & Acquisitions

Saghi Fattahian

Partner

Chicago +1.312.324.1744

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Cybersecurity, Incident Response & Privacy; ; Mergers & Acquisitions; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation; Healthcare Transactions

Allison J. Fepelstein

Associate

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5667

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Multiemployer Plans

John G. Ferreira

Partner

Pittsburgh +1.412.560.3350

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation; Mergers & Acquisitions; ; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation

Elizabeth S. Goldberg

Partner

Pittsburgh +1.412.560.7428

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; ; ESG & Sustainability Advisory; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation; Business and Human Rights Law; Global ESG Reporting Regulations; Climate; Culture & DEI: Strategy, Litigation & Investigations

Lindsay M. Goodman

Associate

Chicago +1.312.324.1176

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Multiemployer Plans

Michael Gorman

Partner

Pittsburgh +1.412.560.7476

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation; Multiemployer Plans

Matthew H. Hawes

Partner

Pittsburgh +1.412.560.7740

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ; Executive Compensation; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Mergers & Acquisitions

Brian D. Hector

Partner

Chicago +1.312.324.1160

Labor, Employment & Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plans; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Mergers & Acquisitions

Mary B. Hevener

Partner

New York +1.212.309.6888

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5982

Labor, Employment & Benefits; Tax; Benefits & Payroll Tax; Mergers & Acquisitions; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation; Healthcare Transactions

Amy Pocino Kelly

Partner

Philadelphia +1.215.963.5042

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Multiemployer Plans; Executive Compensation; ; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity; Capital Markets & Public Companies

Elizabeth G. Kennedy

Senior Client Employee Benefits Consultant

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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ;

Marla J. Kreindler

Partner

Chicago +1.312.324.1114

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; ; Capital Markets & Public Companies; Investment Management; Private Equity; Institutional Investors; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation

Gina L. Lauriero

Partner

New York +1.212.309.7103

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation; Mergers & Acquisitions; Capital Markets & Public Companies

Robert J. Lichtenstein

Partner

Philadelphia +1.215.963.5726

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation; Private Equity; Mergers & Acquisitions; Capital Markets & Public Companies; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation; Healthcare Transactions

William J. Marx

Associate

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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Multiemployer Plans

Randall C. McGeorge

Partner

Pittsburgh +1.412.560.7410

Labor, Employment & Benefits; Executive Compensation; ; Multiemployer Plans; Mergers & Acquisitions

Gregory L. Needles

Gregory L. Needles

Partner

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5448

Labor, Employment & Benefits; Tax; ; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; ; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation; Institutional Investors

Anna M. Pomykala

Associate

New York +1.212.309.6731

Labor, Employment & Benefits

Erin Randolph-Williams

Partner

Philadelphia +1.215.963.5982

Labor, Employment & Benefits; Executive Compensation; Mergers & Acquisitions

Patrick Rehfield

Partner

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5640

Labor, Employment & Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plans; Benefits & Payroll Tax; Executive Compensation; Tax; Private Equity; Capital Markets & Public Companies; Mergers & Acquisitions; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation; Healthcare Transactions

Michael B. Richman

Partner

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5036

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Investment Management; Institutional Investors

Jared W. Rogers

Jared W. Rogers

Senior Client Employee Benefits Consultant

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Labor, Employment & Benefits;

Gary S. Rothstein

Partner

New York +1.212.309.6360

Labor, Employment & Benefits; Executive Compensation; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity; Capital Markets & Public Companies

Mark J. Simons

Of Counsel

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Labor, Employment & Benefits;

Julie K. Stapel

Partner

Chicago +1.312.324.1113

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; ; Investment Management; Private Equity; Capital Markets & Public Companies; Institutional Investors; ESG & Sustainability Advisory; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation

Randall Tracht

R. Randall Tracht

Partner

Pittsburgh +1.412.560.3352

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Workforce Change; Cybersecurity, Incident Response & Privacy

Linda Way-Smith

Linda A. Way-Smith

Of Counsel

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5770

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Multiemployer Plans;

Mims Maynard Zabriskie

Mims Maynard Zabriskie

Partner

Philadelphia +1.215.963.5036

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Executive Compensation; Mergers & Acquisitions

David B Zelikoff

David B. Zelikoff

Partner

Philadelphia +1.215.963.5360

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity; Capital Markets & Public Companies

Jonathan Zimmerman

Partner

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5212

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation; ; ; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation; Benefits & Payroll Tax; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation

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Jeremy P. Blumenfeld

Partner

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New York +1.212.309.6958

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation

Michael S. Burkhardt

Michael S. Burkhardt

Partner

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Labor, Employment & Benefits; Systemic Employment Litigation; Employment Counseling; Trade Secrets, Proprietary Information & Noncompetition/​Nondisclosure Agreements; Whistleblowing & Retaliation; Culture & DEI: Strategy, Litigation & Investigations

Melissa D. Hill

Partner

New York +1.212.309.6318

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Partner

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James T. Kimble

Of Counsel

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Labor, Employment & Benefits; Multiemployer Plans; ; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation

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Partner

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Capital Markets & Public Companies; Mergers & Acquisitions; Investment Management; Private Equity; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Broker-Dealer Regulation & Compliance; Multiemployer Plans; Secondary Transactions

Timothy P. Lynch

Senior Director

Washington, DC +1.202.739.5263

US Labor/​Management Relations; Washington Strategic Government Relations & Counseling; Morgan Lewis Consulting LLC; Workplace Government Relations and Regulation; Congressional Investigations; Multiemployer Plans

Jason J. Ranjo

Associate

Princeton +1.609.919.6669

Labor, Employment & Benefits; Individual Employee Litigation & Arbitration; Trade Secrets, Proprietary Information & Noncompetition/​Nondisclosure Agreements

Matthew A. Russell

Partner

Chicago +1.312.324.1771

Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation

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Partner

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Michelle Seldin Silverman

Michelle Seldin Silverman

Partner

Princeton +1.609.919.6660

Labor, Employment & Benefits; Individual Employee Litigation & Arbitration; Systemic Employment Litigation; Employment Counseling; US Labor/​Management Relations

Grace E. Speights

Partner

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Labor, Employment & Benefits; Systemic Employment Litigation; Employment Counseling; Crisis Management; Culture & DEI: Strategy, Litigation & Investigations; Class Actions & Group Litigation; Workplace Harassment Crisis Capabilities