ERISA/Employee Benefits Litigation

Building a stronger workplace can occasionally mean promoting and protecting your interests in court. Seyfarth Shaw has an extensive, dynamic employee benefits litigation practice — in fact, each of the firm’s offices nationwide includes attorneys who have successfully litigated Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) and other employee benefits cases.

We have significant in-depth experience in all aspects of benefits litigation, including single-plaintiff and class-action benefit claims, fiduciary duty, discrimination, reporting and disclosure, pension and welfare plan interpretation, executive compensation and stock options, and multiemployer plan claims. Our full-service litigation practice extends to complex issues such as class-action law and procedure, ERISA pre-emption and ERISA’s relationship to state laws, and the nuances of the ERISA remedial scheme.

To take maximum advantage of our experiences and insights, the firm’s employee benefits litigation subgroup meets on a regular basis to share successful client strategies and solutions, simultaneously improving service and creating an excellent team ethic. The result of this constant effort to improve benefits litigation has been a substantial increase in cases over the past ten years — many of which have set new precedents.