Experience

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  Bloomberg Law

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Editor In Chief

    • Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Responsible for managing volunteers to draft Bloomberg Law's Employee Benefits Law, one of the leading law treatises on employee benefits law;

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  AARP Foundation Litigation

  • Washington, DC

  • Senior Staff Attorney

    • 1993 - Sep 2018
    • Washington, DC

    •Preparing and filing amicus curiae briefs as counsel of record, presenting AARP’s position on pension and employee benefits issues before the Supreme Court, federal and state appeals courts.•Drafting comments and presenting testimony setting forth AARP’s position on proposed regulations promulgated by the Department of Labor, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the Internal Revenue Service. Representing AARP at PBGC negotiated rulemaking.

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  ERISA Advisory Council, U.S. Department of Labor

  • Washington< DC

  • Member

    • Sep 2011 - Nov 2013
    • Washington< DC

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  ACEBC

  • President

    • 2010 - Sep 2012

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  Donovan, Leisure, Rogovin, Huge & Schiller

  • Attorney

    • 1986 - 1993

    •Advising national multiemployer pension, welfare, supplemental employment, legal services, and prescription drug funds on ERISA and IRC compliance, including plan design and qualification, administration, fiduciary duty requirements, reporting and disclosure procedures, retiree health benefits, social investing, negotiation of mergers between employee benefit plans, and government audits and investigations.

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  Abato, Rubenstein & Abato

  • Partner

    • 1979 - 1986

    •Advising local multiemployer pension, welfare, severance, apprenticeship and vacation funds on ERISA and IRC compliance, including plan design and qualifications, fiduciary duty requirements, prohibited transaction exemptions, subrogation and coordination of benefit policies, and delinquent contribution and withdrawal liability collection policies.