Having practiced employee benefits law exclusively since 1979, Ken (a co-founder of the firm in 1989) is among the most knowledgeable and experienced employee benefits attorneys in the U.S.  He partners with the firm’s clients to address all aspects of their employee benefits from design and documentation, to compliance and administration issues, to plan termination, with a particular focus on:

Education

LL.M. (Master of Laws) in taxation from Golden Gate University School of Law (graduated first in class), J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law, B.S. from the University of Kansas

Admitted to practice in California

Expertise

• Executive compensation such as nonqualified deferred compensation, phantom stock, stock appreciation rights (SARs), 457(b), 457(f), and Code section 409A compliance and correction.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k), other defined contribution, defined benefit, cash balance, 403(b), and SEPs.
• Employee welfare benefits (group health plans, COBRA, HRAs, cafeteria plans, VEBAs and MEWAs).
• Controlled group, common control, affiliated service group and leased employee analyses.
• Public agencies and church plans.