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Emily Allender Attorney at Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation EA
Emily Allender Attorney at Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Emily Allender is an attorney with PBGC in Washington, D.C., where she has been for the last three years specializing in multiemployer pension plans, primarily the SFA program enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Ms. Allender has also worked on multiemployer litigation for PBGC as well as regulatory and policy matters for the SFA final rule and the proposed 4213 regulation. Outside of PBGC, she was a contributor and editor for the ABA 2024 Employee Benefits Law treatise update and the vice-chair for the Young Lawyer’s Division Labor and Employment Law Committee. Ms. Allender has presented previously at various conferences for the ABA and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. Emily received her law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2021 where she was a member of the Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agricultural, and Natural Resources Law and received the Judge Rebecca Westerfield Award for Excellence in Leadership. She received her undergraduate degree from Miami University of Ohio in 2018 and is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
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Jessica Alvarez Associate at Kraw Law Group JA Mrs. Alvarez is an associate at Kraw Law Group and focuses on the representation of multiemployer benefit funds. She counsels pension and health and welfare plans on all aspects of law, including plan design, regulatory compliance, legal issues relating to plan investments, and litigation matters. Prior to joining Kraw Law Group, she practiced traditional labor law for a California state agency, where she investigated and litigated allegations of unfair labor practices under the Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
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Kathryn Bakich Sr. VP at Segal KB Kathryn is a Senior Vice President in Segal's Washington, DC office with over 20 years of experience in healthcare compliance. She is formerly the firm's National Health Compliance Practice Leader.
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Linda Baldwin-Jones Shareholder at Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld (Emeryville, CA) LB Linda Baldwin Jones, a shareholder with Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, has over 28 years of experience in the area of ERISA and employee benefits. Ms. Jones represents and advises multiemployer employee benefit plans, which provide pension, annuity, health and welfare, apprenticeship and training benefits across several industries. She regularly counsels her employee benefit plan clients on the full range of ERISA plan administration and compliance issues and has extensive litigation and arbitration experience with ERISA and trust fund related matters.
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Mariah Becker Director of Research and Education at National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans MB
Mariah Becker Director of Research and Education at National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans Mariah Becker joined the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans (NCCMP) in 2016 as the Director of Research and Education. In this role, she works extensively to evaluate and design policy & technical proposals to protect and strengthen the multiemployer system, as well as to develop analysis to evaluate the economic impact of federal policies, regulations and industry developments.
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Christian Benjaminson Principal Consulting Actuary at Cheiron CB
Christian Benjaminson Principal Consulting Actuary at Cheiron Christian has more than 25 years of experience as an actuarial consultant, primarily with Taft-Hartley pension plans.
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Denise Clark General Counsel at IAM National Benefit Funds SC
Sara A. Corello Partner at Spivak Lipton LLP SC Sara Corello advises Spivak Lipton’s employee benefit fund clients, particularly those in the entertainment industry, on regulatory and compliance issues. She represents the funds’ interests in arbitration, federal and state courts, and government agencies, as well as in collective bargaining negotiations.
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Marcy J. Dunlap Partner at Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP MD
Marcy J. Dunlap Partner at Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP Marcy J. Dunlap began her legal career in employee benefits over two decades ago. Ms. Dunlap joined Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP in 2021 as Of Counsel and became a Partner in 2022. She represents union-affiliated employee benefit plans in a wide variety of compliance matters and advises on plan administration issues. Ms. Dunlap leads the firm’s efforts to advise clients on various compliance requirements for health plans, including but not limited to the Affordable Care Act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the No Surprises Act. Ms. Dunlap is a frequent speaker for the American Bar Association and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.
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Timothy K. Eicher Principal at Slevin & Hart, P.C. TE Timothy K. Eicher has focused exclusively on employee benefits law since he began his career, and advises clients on a wide range of compliance issues under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and related laws. Mr. Eicher has experience representing single employer and multiemployer defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans, health and welfare plans, and other ERISA-covered employee benefit plans.
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Jeffrey S. Endick Principal at Slevin & Hart, P.C. JE Jeffrey S. Endick is a principal with the law firm of Slevin & Hart, PC and has been in private practice since 1984, representing single and multiemployer benefit plans and tax-exempt organizations. His experience includes all aspects of employee benefits law, including ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code.
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David M. Fusco Partner at Fusco Gallagher & Porcaro LLP DF David Fusco is a partner at Fusco Gallagher & Porcaro LLP. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and a Juris Doctor Degree (cum laude) from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University.
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Kendra Isaacson Principal at Mindset KI Kendra Isaacson is a principal at Mindset. Kendra served as the Pensions Policy Director and Senior Tax Counsel for the Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. In these positions, she advised then-Chair Patty Murray on all pension-related issues and managed all aspects of the committee’s retirement agenda. Kendra has many notable legislative accomplishments, such as the “Save our Community Newspaper Act,” the retirement provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,” the “Butch Lewis Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act,” which was included in the “American Rescue Plan Act”, and most recently, “SECURE 2.0.” Kendra also managed the Senator’s economic and tax portfolios, which included staffing the Senator in her role as a Conference Committee member on the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.”
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Tom Leibfried Legislative Representative at AFL-CIO TL
Tom Leibfried Legislative Representative at AFL-CIO Tom Leibfried is the health care lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, and works with Congress to improve health care coverage for America’s working families. His work focuses on employer-based health insurance, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
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Andrew K. Lin Member at Mooney, Green, Saindon, Murphy & Welch, P.C. AL Andrew Lin’s practice focuses primarily on representing employee benefit plans, principally multiemployer plans, as well as providing representation to labor unions. Mr. Lin counsels plans providing benefits to construction workers, mineworkers, service workers, and union staff, as well as firefighters, police, and other emergency personnel working in the public sector.
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Joyce A. Mader Of Counsel at O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP (Washington, DC) JM Joyce A. Mader is Of Counsel to the law firm of O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP in Washington, DC. She joined the firm in 1976 and since then has been primarily engaged in the representation of multiemployer pension and welfare plans on a wide range of issues including plan design and administration, benefit claims and appeals, tax qualification and voluntary correction, fiduciary matters, investments, DOL investigations, IRS examinations, HIPAA compliance, Affordable Care Act compliance, health fund tax issues, Pension Protection Act compliance and pension funding issues, mergers and reciprocity, and Multiemployer Pension Reform Act. A list of her papers and presentations is available.
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Christopher Mietlicki Consulting Actuary at Cheiron CM
Christopher Mietlicki Consulting Actuary at Cheiron Chris has more than three decades of experience as an actuarial consultant, primarily advising both labor and management trustees of multiemployer pension plans.
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Mayoung Nham Principal at Slevin & Hart PC MN Mayoung Nham has been working with defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans, health and welfare plans, and training plans since graduating law school in 2007. Her experience includes advising clients on all aspects of employee benefits law, including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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Michael A. Powers O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP (Washington, DC) MP Michael Powers is a Partner with O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP who focuses exclusively on counseling the Firm’s local, regional, and national multiemployer pension and health plan clients on compliance-related issues. In doing so, he strives to provide practical and understandable legal advice that is designed to solve routine and unusual problems in the most pragmatic way possible.
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Anusha Rasalingam Friedman & Anspach AR Anusha Rasalingam joined the firm in 2003 and became a partner in 2012. Prior to joining the firm, she worked in the Legal Counsel Division of the Office of the Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, drafting legislation and advising the mayor and city agencies.
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Owen Rumelt Partner at Cary Kane PLLC OR Owen M. Rumelt is a Partner focusing on ERISA and employee benefits law. He has practiced employee benefits law for more than 30 years. Mr. Rumelt has served as sole counsel or co-counsel to numerous Taft-Hartley multi-employer pension, welfare, annuity and 401(k) funds over his legal career. He also served for a number of years as the fund manager of union-affiliated pension and welfare plans. Mr. Rumelt litigates on behalf of funds seeking contributions and withdrawal liability and on behalf of individual plaintiffs seeking to ensure that they receive the benefits promised them. Mr. Rumelt was retained as an expert witness on behalf of Fund Trustees and their counsel in In re Iron Workers Local 25 Pension Fund, 811 F. Supp. 2d 1295 (E.D. Mich. 2011), on the question of whether fund counsel can be a fiduciary for purposes of ERISA.
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Jacob N. Szewczyk Partner at O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP (Washington, DC) JS Jacob N. Szewczyk joined O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP as an Associate in August 2015. Prior to becoming an Associate, Mr. Szewczyk started with the firm as a law clerk in September 2014.
Kristina Zinnen Vice President and Senior Consultant, Retirement Compliance, San Francisco at Segal
Kristina Zinnen Vice President and Senior Consultant, Retirement Compliance, San Francisco at Segal Kristina is a Vice President and Senior Consultant, Retirement Compliance, affiliated with Segal’s San Francisco office. She has more than 15 years of experience as an ERISA attorney. She provides retirement compliance services to multiemployer defined benefit and defined contribution plans across a wide range of industries. Her expertise includes all aspects of pension compliance, including:
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Julia Zuckerman Vice President at Segal JZ Julia is a Vice President and Senior Consultant in the Compliance Practice, based in the Washington, DC office. She provides consultative and technical support on compliance issues for both health and retirement plans, mainly to New York Corporate and Midwest Region clients.
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