• Advise clients on how to administer retirement, welfare, cafeteria or executive compensation plans• Help employers with ERISA and Internal Revenue Code compliance, including the correction of plan operational failures• Assist religious employers with benefit questions, including the application of ERISA’s “church plan” exemption• Benefits litigation for individual benefit claims and ERISA class actions• Defend plan sponsors in suits involving “church plans,” forum selection clauses, and ERISA pre-emption • Represented Advocate Health Care Network before the U.S. Supreme Court in Advocate Health Care Network et al. v. Stapleton et al., a high-profile case involving the interpretation of ERISA’s “church plan” definition. The case resulted in a unanimous June 5, 2017, decision in favor of Advocate and two other religiously affiliated hospitals.