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Ken earned a B.S. in Accounting is from Case Western Reserve University,
graduating in 1980. He earned his J.D. at Cleveland-Marshall College of
Law in 1986. Ken is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the
Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Ken advises clients in all areas of employee benefits law, including
compliance and tax issues, welfare and pension plans, and ERISA
litigation. Ken's practice covers the full range of plan issues: from
single employer to multiemployer plans, from retirement to welfare
plans, and from consulting to litigation. Retirement plan counseling
focuses on advising plans and their sponsors, fiduciaries, and service
providers on legal issues in the design, adoption, administration and
termination of qualified and nonqualified retirement and incentive
programs.
Health and welfare counseling focuses on advising employers and service
providers on the structure, implementation, and operational issues of
funded and unfunded welfare benefit plans, including VEBAs, cafeteria
and flex plans, self-insured health plans, and the design of managed and
alternative health care programs.
ERISA litigation involves such matters as fiduciary breaches, prohibited
transactions, service provider malpractice, and employee benefit plan
issues in corporate reorganizations. Ken represents clients in federal
and state courts at the trial and appellate levels. He also represent
clients before the DOL, IRS and the PBGC. In addition to employee
benefit and tax matters, Ken assists clients with employment-related
immigration proceedings.<
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