Legal Horizons: Exploring Emerging ERISA Litigation Trends

Ben Reilly is counsel in Goodwin’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice and focuses his practice on a wide array of complex commercial litigation, primarily in the areas of ERISA and securities litigation. In particular, Ben focuses his practice on defending financial services companies, insurance companies, and other large employers against ERISA class actions alleging mismanagement of employee retirement plans.

William D. Pollak is a versatile and highly regarded commercial litigator who leverages over a decade of experience to represent companies and individuals in a wide range of high stakes litigation and complex regulatory matters. Will is a business-minded lawyer who provides clients with creative strategies, sound advice and cost-effective solutions to their most pressing matters. Will concentrates his practice on ERISA class action litigation. As a member of O’Melveny’s award-winning ERISA litigation group has spent much of his career defending many of the nation’s largest retirement plans and most prominent service providers against fiduciary breach claims and other alleged violations of ERISA at all stages of litigation.

David assists clients in general corporate matters and in employee ownership, benefit, ERISA, and related business matters, with an emphasis on executive compensation, equity incentive plans, non-qualified deferred compensation, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), ESOP transactions, mergers and acquisitions (and related tax planning), and business succession and estate planning.

David has served as outside general counsel to numerous corporate clients over the past 37 years. He also frequently appears on behalf of clients in business and employment-oriented defense litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country, and before regulatory agencies (e.g., U.S. Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Tax Court, etc.).