About Us
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
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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation; ; Cybersecurity, Incident Response & Privacy; ; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation
Craig A. Bitman
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Summer M. Blackburn
Senior Client Employee Benefit Advisor
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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Multiemployer Plans
Samuel P. Bryant
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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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Althea R. Day
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Leslie E. DuPuy
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Saghi Fattahian
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Chicago +1.312.324.1744
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Allison J. Fepelstein
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John G. Ferreira
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Elizabeth S. Goldberg
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Michael Gorman
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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation; Multiemployer Plans
Matthew H. Hawes
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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ; Executive Compensation; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Mergers & Acquisitions
Brian D. Hector
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Chicago +1.312.324.1160
Labor, Employment & Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plans; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Mergers & Acquisitions
Mary B. Hevener
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New York +1.212.309.6888
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Amy Pocino Kelly
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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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Marla J. Kreindler
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Chicago +1.312.324.1114
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Gina L. Lauriero
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Robert J. Lichtenstein
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William J. Marx
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Gregory L. Needles
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Michael B. Richman
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Senior Client Employee Benefits Consultant
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Gary S. Rothstein
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Julie K. Stapel
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Linda A. Way-Smith
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Mims Maynard Zabriskie
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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; Executive Compensation; Mergers & Acquisitions
David B. Zelikoff
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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ; ERISA Fiduciary Duty; Executive Compensation; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity; Capital Markets & Public Companies
Jonathan Zimmerman
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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
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New York +1.212.309.6958
Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation; Healthcare & Life Sciences Litigation
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James T. Kimble
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Daniel R. Kleinman
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Timothy P. Lynch
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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
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Matthew A. Russell
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Labor, Employment & Benefits; ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation
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Michelle Seldin Silverman
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