Jorden Burt LLP

Jorden Burt LLP is a national law firm with more than 80 lawyers focused on providing advice and representation to the financial services, insurance, healthcare, general corporate and other related industries. The Firm functions as a strategic team, across industry groups, practice teams and geographic locations with offices located in Washington, D.C., Miami, Florida and Simsbury, Connecticut. The Firm's lawyers are active in relevant professional and industry associations, acquiring the knowledge and maintaining the skills necessary to meet the evolving needs of their clients. Our focus is on assuring a reputation for excellence, integrity, teamwork and an understanding of and service to the needs of our clients.

Long recognized as a pioneer in the creation of innovative financial and investment fund structures and of new insurance and reinsurance products, Jorden Burt is a preeminent defender of the general corporate and financial services industry in market conduct, class action, securities, fraud, contract, trademark, intellectual property, white collar criminal, regulatory and other complex litigation and investigations. The Firm's clients are multinational and domestic corporations, issuers of financial products for businesses, pension plans, and individuals, with distribution through established channels and electronic networks in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and developing markets around the globe.

Unclaimed Benefit Practices under Scrutiny
Kristin A. Shepard, November 28, 2011
Scrutiny of insurers’ unclaimed benefit practices has sparked both proposed legislative changes by the national Conference of insurance Legislators’ Life insurance & Financial Planning Committee (the NCOiL Committee) and class action litigation.

Seventh Circuit Again Finds That Sponsor's Offering Of Retail Mutual Funds In Defined-Contribution Plan Does Not Run Afoul of ERISA Duties
Waldemar J. Pflepsen,Michael A. Valerio, September 21, 2011
Following its earlier holding in Hecker v. Deere & Co., 556 F.3d 575 (7th Cir. 2009), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has again rejected ERISA breach of fiduciary duty claims brought against a plan sponsor by plan participants challenging the sponsor's offering of...

The Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing
Diane Duhaime, September 9, 2011
Not everyone likely agrees on the definition of cloud computing (“the cloud”). Some contend that cloud computing is nothing new; it is merely applying a marketing term to something that has already been done by technology providers for many years.