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Chambers just ranked ours as one of the country’s leading business law firms.

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Employee Benefits

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Labor-Related Issues
  • Employee benefit and pension plans

  • Executive compensation arrangements

  • Flexible spending plans

  • Cafeteria plans

  • Employee benefit aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and labor negotiations


  • Retirement Plans
  • Defined contribution plans (such as profit-sharing and money purchase plans)

  • Defined benefit pension plans, including cash balance plans

  • 401(k) plans

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)

  • Target benefit plans

  • IRS determination letters for qualified retirement plans

  • 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity plans for eligible non-profit companies

  • IRAs and SEPs

  • Design and administration issues

  • Fiduciary issues and prohibited transactions

  • Funding issues

  • Summary plan descriptions

  • Annual Reports, including IRS Form 5500

  • IRS correction programs, including VCR and Walk-in CAP

  • Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs)

  • Plan mergers, terminations, and spin-offs


  • Welfare and Fringe Benefit Plans
  • Medical, dental, life insurance, and short-term and long-term disability plans

  • Section 125 cafeteria plans

  • Health and dependent care flexible spending account plans

  • Retiree medical insurance plans

  • Tuition reimbursement plans

  • Severance plans

  • COBRA and HIPAA compliance issues

  • VEBA trusts

  • Design and administration issues

  • Fiduciary issues

  • Summary plan descriptions

  • Form 5500

  • Qualified Medical Child Support Orders

  • Integration of plans in connection with corporate combinations


  • Executive Compensation Plans
  • Incentive and non-qualified stock option plans

  • Stock bonus plans

  • Phantom stock plans

  • Restricted stock plans

  • Stock appreciation rights

  • Long-term incentive compensation plans

  • Directors' compensation plans

  • Employee stock discount purchase plans

  • Non-qualified deferred compensation plans, including Section 457(b) and Section 457(f) deferred compensation plans

  • Excess benefit plans

  • Supplemental executive retirement plans

  • Rabbi trusts

  • Proxy disclosure rules

  • Design and administration issues


  • For more information, please contact:

    Bloomfield Hills:
    Kevin M. Bernys
    248-433-7234 or kbernys@dickinsonwright.com

    Deborah L. Grace
    248-433-7217 or dgrace@dickinsonwright.com

    Cynthia A. Moore
    248-433-7295 or cmoore@dickinsonwright.com

    Lansing:
    Peter S. Sheldon
    517-371-1730 or psheldon@dickinsonwright.com