ERISA Attorneys

Fred Reish
fredreish@reish.com
(310) 478-5656, ext. 222
www.reish.com

Bruce Ashton
bruceashton@reish.com
(310) 478-5656, ext. 201
www.reish.com

The Reish Luftman benefits practice has a national reputation and a nationwide clientele. While the attorneys are best known for their work on fiduciary issues, correcting plan defects and interfacing with the IRS and DOL, their practice covers all aspects of employer-sponsored benefits, from retirement programs to health care, from advising plan committees to defending plan sponsors and fiduciaries.

Melissa B. Kurtzman
MKurtzman@littler.com
(267) 402-3036
www.littler.com

Melissa B. Kurtzman is a partner in Littler Mendelson's Employee Benefits and Employment Services Practice Groups. Her practice concentrates in employee benefits and taxation matters. She also advises clients regarding welfare benefit programs, including retiree medical benefits, self-insured programs and cafeteria plans. Ms. Kurtzman focuses upon compliance with the statutory and regulatory rules relating to such plans, including rules arising from ERISA.

Marcia Wagner, Esq.
marcia@wagnerlawgroup.com
The Wagner Law Group
A Professional Corporation
99 Summer Street, 13th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
Tel: (617) 357-5200
Fax: (617) 357-5250
www.wagnerlawgroup.com

David N. Levine
dlevine@groom.com
(202) 861-5436
www.groom.com

David N. Levine is a principal at Groom Law Group, Chartered, a firm of nearly 60 attorneys that focuses exclusively on ERISA and employee benefits issues. Mr. Levine maintains a wide-ranging employee benefits practice in which he addresses benefits-related issues that range from issues of plan and participant taxation to fiduciary structuring to health and welfare benefit design. He regularly serves as counsel to Fortune 500 clients, tax-exempt organizations, and governmental retirement plans on their various employee benefits issues. Recent examples of Mr. Levine's work involves in-depth compliance reviews of complex defined benefit and defined contribution plans, implementation of cash balance retirement and welfare plans, and the representation of tax-exempt organizations with respect to issues involving corporate governance, executive compensation, and unrelated business income tax liability. Mr. Levine regularly speaks on plan design, fiduciary governance, and legislative issues to audiences ranging from human resources professionals, to third-party administrators, to vendors and other service providers. Mr. Levine currently serves as the vice-chair of the American Bar Association Tax Section's Employee Benefits Committee's Subcommittee on Legislation. He is listed in The Legal 500 directory for Employee Benefits Tax work and in the USA Chambers guide for Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation.