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This month’s Friday Five addresses cases considering: (1) whether monetary relief in the amount of lost benefits is an available remedy for breach of fiduciary duty; (2) the validity of an ex-spouse’s beneficiary designation that contradicts a subsequent divorce decree; (3) if waiver of a pre...
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to interpretation of regulatory deadlines, the enforceability of discretionary clauses, circuit courts going both ways on appeals from summary judgment rulings in favor of plans, and a benefits award for a former professional football player where the...
Sondra Saporta assists employers with labor and employment disputes, including litigating and investigating claims relating to racial and gender discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, disability accommodations, and restrictive covenants. In addition to defending clients in civil litigation...
Teresa "Terri" R. Tracy represents management in labor and employment litigation and related legal matters. Her experience includes issues involving wrongful termination, discrimination, wage and hour, class action, union organizing campaigns, grievances and arbitrations, and collective bargaining...
Lisa Koblin assists employers with labor and employment disputes, including litigation of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, unpaid wage and class action claims in state and federal courts as well as mediation. She provides counseling on employee handbooks and policies, non-compete agreements...
Jim Gkonos focuses his practice of almost 40 years on insurance and reinsurance regulatory matters, contract and treaty interpretation and reinsurance disputes. As a former division general counsel of a large domestic property and casualty carrier, Jim has significant experience with the regulatory...
Erin Westbrook assists clients in the food, beverage, agribusiness and cannabis industries with matters involving their intellectual property and business disputes. Her experience includes counseling and litigation involving trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets and contracts, and she...
Amy Kline is a commercial litigator whose practice is focused on the representation of insurers and reinsurers in complex civil litigation. She is co-chair of the firm's Insurance Group and a member of the Executive Committee. Amy has extensive trial and appellate experience in federal and state...
Michael Joyce assists clients with litigation, including a wide variety of commercial disputes and insurance matters. His commercial litigation experience includes high-stakes contractual disputes, intellectual property and software cases, trade secret misappropriation and other injunction matters...
Caitlin Piccarello Strauss is a commercial litigator who represents companies in disputes involving insurance, employee benefits and ERISA, real estate, and restrictive covenants. As a leader of the Firm's Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation team, she regularly defends insurers in life, health...
Jason Tremblay is a business attorney and litigator who advises companies in a wide range of industries on employment law and commercial matters. His experience in employment matters includes counseling, negotiation and litigation on issues critical to the evolving workplace including wage and hour...
Alexander Reich is a trusted litigator and advisor who focuses on employment law. He counsels employers on an array of matters involving federal and state statutes such as Title VII, Title IX, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family...
Anna María Tejada defends management in labor and employment litigation nationwide and provides counseling and workplace training on related matters affecting their operations. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience, Anna María advises companies, public entities, and nonprofits, on the...
Hilda Piloto is a skilled trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience advising clients, trying cases and negotiating complex civil disputes. She has handled significant international and local complex civil litigation matters involving the prosecution and defense of commercial partnership, fraud...
Matt Haar draws on more than 20 years of experience as a litigator to handle corporate and commercial disputes, including cases involving insurance and reinsurance, energy and permitting, and clean energy. Beyond this industry-specific work, Matt represents companies across an array of industries...
Katherine "Katie" Barrett Wiik is a litigator with more than 17 years of experience handling federal and state appellate matters and litigation disputes. Katie has served as lead attorney in dozens of appeals and secured favorable outcomes for clients before the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits...
Jessica E. Bradley is an experienced litigator and trial lawyer who defends employers and managers in labor and employment matters, ranging from claims of harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and discrimination based on age, sex, gender, race, color, national origin, disability and...