ERISA, Labor & Employment

Steptoe offers counseling and litigation services for employers in all aspects of employment law and labor relations, including legislative representation in the US Congress.

In particular, we have been providing plan sponsors, fiduciaries, and service providers with effective representation related to ERISA matters for almost four decades.  Our attorneys address complex tax, Title I (fiduciary), Title IV (plan termination and withdrawal liability), transactional, and legislative matters and provide effective representation for ERISA-related litigation.

Steptoe also represents employers in employment-related litigation at all levels of the state and federal system throughout the United States.  Our attorneys have successfully litigated local jury trials, large class actions, and enforcement proceedings brought by government agencies.  In addition, we have frequently represented parties and amici before all levels of appellate courts, including the US Supreme Court.

Noteworthy

• Received a #1 Ranking in Chambers USA 2005-2011: America's Leading Business Lawyers; ERISA Litigation (Nationwide)
• Received a #1 Ranking in Chambers USA 2007-2011: America's Leading Business Lawyers; Labor & Employment (Arizona)
• Ranked in Chambers USA 2005-2011: America's Leading Business Lawyers; Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (District of Columbia)
• Ranked in Chambers USA 2010-2011: America's Leading Business Lawyers; Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Nationwide)
• Ranked in Legal 500 US 2010-2011; Labor & Employment: ERISA Litigation

Select News & Events

• Southern California Super Lawyers Recognizes 12 Steptoe Attorneys
• Law360 Quotes Steptoe’s Cooper on Employment Regulation To Watch In 2012
• Associated Press Quotes Ron Cooper on Obama’s Job Bill
• Four Steptoe Partners Named ‘Lawyer of the Year’ by Best Lawyers
• "Misrepresentation Claims, Preemption, and Employer Stock Cases," 24th Annual ERISA Litigation Conference
• "Understanding Basic Financial Institution Activities," ERISA Fiduciary Investment Basics 2012
• "401(k) Fee Cases," 24th Annual ERISA Litigation Conference
• "Misrepresentation Claims, Preemption and the New Healthcare Environment, and Employer Stock Cases," 24th Annual ERISA Litigation Conference

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Publications

• ERISA Advisory - CFTC Announces New Swap Rules
  February 2, 2012
• Slips of the Pen: When and How May ERISA Plans Correct Scrivener’s Errors?
  January 6, 2012, Bloomberg BNA Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal
• Explaining Plan Changes: Lessons from the Supreme Court in CIGNA v. Amara
  Winter 2011, Employee Relations Law Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3
• ERISA Advisory - Labor Department Issues Final Regulations Addressing Provision of Investment Advice to Participants and Beneficiaries of Self-Directed Individual Account Plans and IRAs
  October 31, 2011

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