Practice Areas & Industries: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Fulbright & Jaworski's Employee Benefits Practice Group has been representing multinational clients in employee benefits, executive compensation and ERISA matters for more than 40 years. Our capabilities in these areas are broad, and we are extremely experienced in creating and counseling employers on sophisticated employee benefit plan matters and defending employers in disputes arising out of employee benefits, executive compensation or other ERISA issues.

In peer surveys of law firms nationwide, Fulbright has been voted the country's top-ranked firm in litigation and arbitration and number five in ERISA and pension matters. In the most recent survey by the publication Best Lawyers in America, three Fulbright partners, Jay Friedman, Mark Miller and Stephanie Schroepfer, were voted by their peers as among the best lawyers in America for employee benefits matters.

Services Available

We have active employee benefits practices in our Houston, New York and San Antonio offices. A significant portion of the practice for these attorneys is planning, drafting and updating qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, as well as assisting clients with on-going compliance matters, and working with the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on various closing agreements, audits and investigations. This group is also highly qualified in identifying special issues and potential problems with employee benefits in corporate and partnership reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions and securities transactions.

An important aspect of our practice is following new legislation and regulations and monitoring clients' employee benefits arrangements to maintain compliance with the law. Our employee benefits attorneys also have significant experience working with outside actuaries, accountants, compensation consultants and bank trustees.

Clients

We represent individuals and entities serving in various capacities in employee benefits, executive compensation and ERISA matters. These entities include:

Our clients range in size from Fortune 500 companies and large privately held companies to mid-size companies, municipalities and other government organizations, tax-exempt organizations, partnerships and trusts.

Our corporate clients turn to us on a daily basis to address the challenges associated with offering numerous employee benefit plans to their employees. We help our clients navigate the changing dynamics of their industry (often through mergers, acquisitions and divestitures) as well as the new legislative issues that may impact a number of plans simultaneously.

Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and ERISA Experience. We have represented literally hundreds of clients in a variety of employee benefit-related issues, including: