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Summary |
This presentation will provide an overview of important issues facing corporate fiduciaries and their counsel including benefit issues in mergers and acquisitions, plan audits after Sarbanes-Oxley, settlor and fiduciary considerations in plan administration and termination, the attorney-client privilege in the employee benefit context and considerations regarding fiduciary liability insurance. |
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Speaker(s) |
David Wolds, Parter, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP;
David Wolds is a partner at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, providing clients with ongoing labor and employment law consultation. He has represented clients in collective bargaining negotiations, trust fund collection and damage suits under Sections 301 and 303 of the Labor-Management Relations Act, NLRB proceedings involving elections and unfair labor practices, wrongful discharge litigation, federal and state wage and hour cases, discrimination and harassment claims and constitutional challenges to public works set-aside programs.
Mr. Wolds assists clients in the establishment and administration of ERISA covered employee benefit plans. He represents employee benefit plans and fiduciaries in litigation including ERISA preemption, employee benefit claim and fiduciary duty cases. He provides counsel to fiduciaries of benefit plans sponsored by our corporate and trade association clients such as pension, health and medical, vacation, and apprentice training plans. He has also represented corporate plan sponsors in fiduciary litigation, provided assistance to tax exempt organizations in creating benefit programs and he works regularly with federal and state agencies to assist our clients with compliance matters in this expanding, complex field. His clients include: San Diego Opera, General Atomics, Associated General Contractors of San Diego, La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, Cygnus Communications, PhotoThera, ViaSat, and Strata Information Systems.
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