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Employee Benefits Litigation

Employee Benefits Litigation

Our Employee Benefits Litigation practice regularly represents and counsels both public and private clients, offering a wide range of litigation and advisory services related to retirement and other benefits-related plans and plan sponsors. This includes alleged breaches of fiduciary duty, benefit claims and disability retirement disputes, actuarial funding challenges, Public Records Act demands, open meeting law compliance demands, cybersecurity, insurance, and general contract matters—particularly those involving service providers to the plan. We have substantive experience in litigation involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL), the Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL), the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), and the statutory and Constitutional provisions governing other “independent” city, county, and special district retirement plans.

We understand the fiduciary challenges that the governing boards and/or committees of retirement and other benefit plans face in administering plans, as well as the challenges that plan sponsors face in designing and funding retirement plans. We collaborate with our employee benefits attorneys, who regularly provide fiduciary, governance, plan design, benefit claims, and tax advice regarding retirement plans and plan sponsors. Our thoughtful, practical, and nuanced legal advice often helps clients avoid litigation. But when disputes arise, our record speaks for itself, as we have successfully represented our clients in administrative proceedings, in federal and state courts, including published appellate decisions on novel and precedent-setting legal issues, and in mediations and arbitrations.

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Ray Lynch
Raymond Lynch
Partner
San Francisco, CA
Matthew Peck
Matthew Peck
Partner
Walnut Creek, CA

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