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Our team’s deep market knowledge of laws affecting retirement plans enables us to develop customized retirement plan solutions, practical advice, and strategies for our clients’ unique needs and workforce composition. Our experienced benefits attorneys represent public companies, private companies, and private equity operating companies in retirement plan design and day-to-day plan compliance.
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As a firm of choice for many major businesses, we represent employers, fiduciaries, boards of directors, benefit plans, and plan administrators in all aspects of ERISA litigation, including claims relating to fiduciary liability, plan investments, excessive fees, plan qualification, plan termination, reversion of excess assets, retiree medical benefits, severance and employment contract matters, tax liability matters, and retirement and welfare benefit claims.
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Our Labor & Employment Practice is one of the largest and most experienced practices among the country’s multi-disciplined law firms. Our attorneys represent global employers of all types and sizes—ranging from the Fortune 100 to privately held startups—often serving as national, regional, or preferred counsel to many of these major employers.
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Experience
|April 28, 2023
Nabbed Two Big Wins for Motorola in Billion-Dollar Suits Over Cell Phone Safety
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In the Media
|March 10, 2025
|2 Min Read
Erin Weber Highlights Two Employee Benefits Cases for Attorneys to Watch in March with Law360
Winston & Strawn partner Erin Weber was quoted in a Law360 article analyzing two appellate arguments happening in March that employee benefits attorneys should watch for. Erin discussed a Johnson & Johnson case presenting arguments to a Third Circuit panel, and a case where the Second Circuit will hear arguments from pensioners at IBM.
Benefits Blast
|March 4, 2025
|3 Min Read
Earlier this year, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced updates to the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (VFCP), which are set to take effect March 17, 2025. As an alternative to the more onerous VFCP Application Process, certain common plan errors will soon be eligible for a streamlined self-correction process, known as the Self-Correction Component (SCC). In addition, the DOL amended the associated Prohibited Transaction Exemption, PTE 2002-51, to extend relief to certain corrections under the new SCC.
Benefits Blast
|September 30, 2024
|6 Min Read
Departments Release Final Mental Health Parity Rule
Earlier this month, the U.S. Departments of Labor (the DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Treasury (the Departments) released the long-awaited Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) final rule (the Final Rule). The Final Rule walked back a few of the more burdensome and confusing requirements of the Proposed Rule, including the proposed mathematical “substantially all” test, the network composition safe harbor (guidance about which will be forthcoming), and the fiduciary compliance attestation. However, plans will still need to make substantial changes to their nonquantitative treatment limitation (NQTL) analyses going forward. Additionally, the Final Rule indicates that network composition will be a major enforcement priority for the Departments in the coming years.
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Law Glossary
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is a federal law from 1974 that governs how employers provide benefit plans to employees. ERISA is administered in part by the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Labor. The law establishes requirements and guidelines for employers and benefit plan managers, trustees and certain other service providers. ERISA ensures minimum standards are set for the majority of private industry pension and health plans, as well as other benefit plans such as life insurance. Under ERISA, employees must be notified of benefit plan terms, including funding, coverage, and costs. Employees are also offered protections against fiduciary wrongdoing. Plan participants or the DOL may be able to sue plan fiduciaries if plans are mismanaged or if plan fiduciaries engage in conduct prohibited under ERISA, and plan participants may sue for unpaid benefits.
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Located in Lujiazui, the center of this major financial hub of China, Winston’s Shanghai office consists of foreign-qualified attorneys who have studied and practiced Chinese law, and who excel at bridging the gap between Western and Chinese legal concepts as well as cultural and commercial differences.
Location
Since 1995, Winston & Strawn’s Paris office has provided a wide range of transactional and litigation legal services to its clients. Our Paris attorneys are multilingual and multicultural. Many of them have gained professional experience abroad and are well-versed in managing the cultural and legal nuances often present in legal matters involving multiple jurisdictions. They are recognized by The Legal 500 EMEA, Leaders League, Best Lawyers® in France, and Palmares du Droit.