McDermott Will & Schulte

Employment & Employee Benefits, Mergers & Acquisitions, Regulatory & Compliance, Insurance

Concentrates on the litigation of employee bene­fits, partnership cases, disputes involving hedge and private equity funds, employment disputes between employers and key employees, and restrictive covenant cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States.

Ron defends employee benefit plans, fiduciaries and employers in class actions and in cases brought by individual plaintiffs. He also represents employers, employee benefit plans, fiduciaries and investment managers before the US Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service in connection with novel issues of law concerning plan mergers, terminations, spinoffs, fiduciary duties and prohibited transactions, and various aspects of withdrawal liability and mass withdrawal liability.

Columbia Law School, JD, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Emil Schlesinger Labor Law Prize; Cornell University, BS