ERISA Basics

ABA JOINT COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYEE BENEFITS  • LOCATION: Chicago, IL
 • DATE: May 10 - 12, 2006
SPONSORS: The Sections of Business Law, Health Law, Labor and Employment Law, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Taxation, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice and The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

8:00   Registration and Networking Continental Breakfast     

8:30-  Title IV:  Single Employer Plan Terminations and
9:20   Multiemployer Plan Withdrawal Liability
      
             David R. Levin, Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP, Washington, DC                       

           ERISA Remedies
             Mark DeBofsky, Daley, DeBofsky & Bryant, Chicago, IL

          Bankruptcy and Employee Benefits
            Charles B. Wolf,
Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, PC, Chicago, IL
           
9:30-  HSAs, HRAs, Cafeteria Plans and Other Forms of 
10:20  Defined Contribution Health Plans
           Greta E. Cowart,
Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas, TX
 
            QDROs, QMCSOs and Spousal Rights    
             Martha L. Hutzelman,
Kruchko & Fries, McLean, VA

             Subrogation and Reimbursement                 
             Thomas H. Lawrence,
Lawrence & Russell, LLP, Memphis, TN

10:30-  Advanced Civil Procedure          
11:20    Martha Jo Wagner,
Venable LLP, Washington, DC
 
            ESOPs 
            Gregory K. Brown,
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Chicago, IL

            Mergers and Acquistions
             Joni L. Andrioff,
Jones Day, Chicago, IL
           
11:30- Title IV:  Single Employer Plan Terminations and     
12:20  Multiemployer Plan Withdrawal Liability
            David R. Levin,
Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP, Washington, DC
 
            SEC Issues and Employee Benefit Plans
            Susan J. Daley,
Perkins Coie LLP, Chicago, IL

           ERISA Remedies
           Mark DeBofsky,
Daley, DeBofsky & Bryant, Chicago, IL
 
12:20  Lunch (On Your Own)

 2:00- Section 401(k) Plans
 2:50   Greta E. Cowart,
Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas, TX

           Service Provider Liability
           Ronald S. Kravitz,
  Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif LLP, San Francisco, CA

           Litigating ERISA Class Action
           Teresa Renaker,
Lewis, Feinberg, Renaker & Jackson, PC, Oakland, CA
 
 3:00- Collectively Bargained Plans 
 3:50   Deborah M. Lerner,
Willig Williams & Davidson, Philadelphia, PA
     
           Advanced Civil Procedure
           Martha Jo Wagner,
Venable LLP, Washington, DC

           Section 510 and Downsizing
           Thomas H. Lawrence,
Lawrence & Russell, LLP Memphis, TN

 3:50  Adjourn


   
ERISA Basics
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