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Profile
Experienced attorney with over 13 years of work in the employee benefits and labor law fields. Demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining a variety of single- and multi-employer defined benefit and defined contribution pension and health care plans in an evolving regulatory landscape.
Skills Summary
• Statutory and regulatory research and advice
• Litigation in state and Federal courts
• Extensive work with administrative agencies, such as the DOL, the IRS, MERC, the EEOC and the NLRB.
Relevant work has involved preparing and submitting plans for determination to the IRS; advising on DOL plan audits; negotiating, arbitrating and drafting collective bargaining agreements; amending plans and trusts to comply with changing Federal law and regulations under the PPA, EGTRRA, HIPAA and GUST; working with EPCRS; preparing reporting and disclosure documents such as Summary Plan Descriptions; Form 5500 reporting; plan termination issues; and other benefits matters.
Employment History
Eastman & Smith, Of Counsel, 2008
Novi, Michigan
http://www.eastmansmith.com
Novara Tesija P.L.L.C., Senior Attorney, 1994-2007
Southfield, Michigan
http://www.novaratesija.com
Education
LL.M. Wayne State University, Employee Benefits and Labor Law 1997
J.D. University of Texas, 1992, Associate Editor, Texas Law Review
B.A. University of Michigan, Cum Laude 1990
Professional Activities
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, State Bar of Michigan, State Bar of Texas, State Bar of Ohio
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