8:00   Registration and Networking Continental Breakfast  

8:30   ERISA Preemption
            Charles B. Wolf, Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, PC, Chicago, IL

 9:30  Group Health Benefit Plans: Portability, Access and Renewability 
            Deborah M. Lerner, Willig Williams & Davidson, Philadelphia, PA

10:20  Questions and Answers

10:30   Morning Break         

10:45  ERISA Claims: Standing, Jurisdiction and Scope of Relief
             Teresa Renaker, Lewis, Feinberg, Renaker & Jackson, PC, Oakland, CA

11:35  Benefit Claims: Administrative Procedures
             Elizabeth R. Lishner, Law Office of Elizabeth R. Lishner, Santa Monica, CA
             Denise M. Clark, H.E.R.E.I.U. Welfare-Pension Funds, Aurora, IL
 
12:25  Questions and Answers

12:35  Lunch (On Your Own)

  1:45  Benefit Claims: Litigation
             Elizabeth R. Lishner, Law Office of Elizabeth R. Lishner, Santa Monica, CA
             Kay Kyungsun Yu, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia, PA

  2:35  Questions and Answers

  2:45  COBRA
             Joyce A. Mader, O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP, Washington, DC

  3:35  Questions and Answers        

  3:45  Afternoon Break
          
  4:00  Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation
             Joni L. Andrioff, Jones Day, Chicago, IL

  4:50  Questions and Answers

  5:00  Adjourn