Employee Benefits & ERISA

With consistently top-tier rankings from Chambers USA and Legal 500, Steptoe’s ERISA Group has long been recognized as one of the best in the nation. Described by Legal 500 as "the ‘go-to’ ERISA firm," Steptoe is well known for our ability to solve clients’ problems in all types of ERISA matters, whether in court, before government agencies, or as advisors. 

The breadth of our ERISA experience is evident in our diverse client base, which encompasses all segments of the employee benefit plan community, including plan fiduciaries, state retirement and welfare benefit systems, multiemployer plans, and third-party pension and welfare plan administrators and insurers, as well as corporate plan sponsors, financial institutions, banks, and plan services providers.

As noted in Chambers USA and Legal 500, our lawyers are "highly sophisticated" and their deep technical and practical knowledge enables them to provide clients with "accurate predictions of what the courts and regulatory bodies might do in specific situations." Clients benefit from the wide-ranging strengths of our team, which includes:

• Proven ERISA litigators
• Former senior representatives from the US Department of the Treasury, US Department of Labor, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
• Former Big Four consultants
• Savvy policy advisors on fiduciary issues, retirement benefits, and health care reform