Practice Areas - Employee Benefits
- Labor and Employment
- Counseling for Plan Fiduciaries
- ESOPs and Other Stock-Based Plans
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- Government Audits and Investigations
- Health and Welfare Plans
- Retirement Plan Design and Counseling
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| Contact Info | Telephone: 214-651-5592
Fax: 214-200-0414
http://www.haynesboone.com/greta_cowart/
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| University | Indiana University, B.S., Accounting, with high distinction, 1982 |
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| Law School | Indiana University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1985 |
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| Admitted | 1985, Indiana; 1995, Texas |
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| Born | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
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| ISLN | 907137588 |
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| Transactions | Representing health care system in an employee plans large case Internal Revenue Service audit of all of its retirement, welfare, fringe benefit and executive plans (employee plans large case audits were the predecessor to employee plans team audits); Representing state school system in Internal Revenue Service audit of its 403(b) and 457 plans; Representing numerous clients before the Internal Revenue Service in correcting qualification issues in a number of qualified retirement plans under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System; Representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service to correct violations in 401(k), defined benefit and other qualified retirement plans, and 403(b) plans and to fix complex qualified plan issues; Representing numerous clients successfully through U.S. Department of Labor audits of their 401(k), ESOPs, welfare benefit plans and other employee benefit plans; Representing numerous clients in outsourcing of benefits; Assisting clients with reversing outsourcing of benefits administration; Obtaining private letter rulings resolving difficult defined benefit plan issues; Representing clients in connection with collective bargaining grievances related to benefits and other related issues; Representing corporations on merger strategy and benefit integration negotiation teams; Working with corporations analyzing their nonqualified deferred compensation issues under Code section 409A and proposing alternate designs; Analyzing extensive health plan issues under COBRA, HIPAA portability, GINA, Michelle's Law, ADA, HIPAA privacy, HITECH and other laws; Providing expert opinion to plan administrator in contested appeal of health plan benefit denial; Assisting corporations and managed care organizations regarding legal operating issues related to employee benefit plans. |
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