Blank Rome LLP

PUBLICATIONS

• Affordable Care Act Guidance on Minimum Value

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
  March 2013 (No. 1)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• COLA Increases for Dollar Limitations on Benefits and Contributions

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Executive Compensation
  October 25, 2012
  Barry L. Klein
  

• What the Supreme Court’s Decision on Health Care Reform Means for Employers

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  June 2012 (No. 2)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• Significant Labor & Employment Decisions In Store For 2012

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  January 2012 (No. 3)
  Julie E. Reid
  

• Department of Labor Issues Guidance on Implementation of Health Care Reform and Mental Health Parity Act

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  December 2011 (No. 6)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• Recent Developments in Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  October 2011 (No. 5)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• Agencies Issue Proposed Regulations Regarding Summary of Benefits and Coverage

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  September 2011 (No. 4)
  

• Recent Developments In Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  July 2011 (No. 3)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• Recent Developments In Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  March 2011 (No. 2)
  Arthur Bachman
  

• Recent Developments In Employee Benefits And Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  January 2011 (No. 1)
  

• Recent Developments In Employee Benefits And Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  November 2010 (No. 8)
  

• Recent Developments In Employee Benefits And Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  October 2010 (No. 7)
  

• Recent Developments In Employee Benefits And Executive Compensation:
  Interim Final Regulations and Additional Guidance Issued With Respect to HealthCare Reform Requirements

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  September 2010 (No. 6)
  

• Recent Developments In Employee Benefits And Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  June 2010 (No. 5)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• Recent Developments In Employee Benefits And Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  May 14, 2010
  

• Recent Developments in Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  April 2010 (No. 3)
  Arthur Bachman, Colleen A. Carolan, Michael J. Hanlon, Cory G. Jacobs, Barry L. Klein, Howard M. Knee, et al.
  

• Health Care Reform’s Impact on Employers

  [Alert]
  Health Law Update
  March 26, 2010
  Kristi L. Remington and Barry L. Klein
  

• Recent Developments in Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  March 2010 (No. 2)
  Arthur Bachman and Barry L. Klein
  

• Recent Developments in Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  February 2010 (No. 1)
  Arthur Bachman and Barry L. Klein
  

• COBRA Subsidy Extended

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  December 2009 (No. 11)
  

• IRS Response To President Obama’s New Initiative Regarding Retirement Savings

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  September 2009 (No. 10)
  

• New York Extends COBRA Continuation Coverage

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
  August 2009 (No. 9)
  Anthony A. Mingione
  

• Pennsylvania Enacts Mini-COBRA Law

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  June 2009 (No. 8)
  

• Protecting Your Company From a Wage-and-Hour Class Action

  [Article]
  The Legal Intelligencer
  June 16, 2009
  Brooke T. Iley
  

• IRS Guidance Further Clarifies COBRA Subsidy

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  April 2009 (No. 7)
  

• DOL Issues COBRA Subsidy Model Notices

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  March 2009 (No. 6)
  

• IRS and DOL Issue Guidance on COBRA Subsidy

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  March 2009 (No. 5)
  

• IRS Publishes Revised Payroll Tax Forms to Reflect COBRA Subsidy

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  February 2009 (No. 4)
  

• Recovery Act Includes COBRA Subsidy

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  February 2009 (No. 3)
  

• Changes to COBRA Included in Stimulus Bill

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  February 2009 (No. 2)
  

• Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  January 2009 (No. 1)
  

• New FMLA Regulations: What Every Employer Should Know

  [Article]
  Law Journal Newsletters' The Corporate Counselor
  January 2009
  Mark Blondman and Brooke T. Iley
  

• IRS Extends 403(b) Deadline

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  December 2008 (No. 8)
  

• Compliance with Final Regulations under Code Section 409A Required by December 31, 2008

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  October 2008 (No. 7)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• COLA Increases for Dollar Limitations on Benefits and Contributions

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  October 2008 (No. 6)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• New York Stock Exchange Amends Two Director Independence Tests

  [Alert]
  Corporate and Securities Update
  October 2008 (No. 17)
  

• New Mental Health Coverage Requirement

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  October 2008 (No. 5)
  

• Executive Compensation Best Practices

  [Article]
  Delaware Corporate
  October 6, 2008
  Frederick D. Lipman
  

• Congress Enlarges the Protection of the ADA with Recently Enacted Amendments

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  September 2008 (No. 10)
  

• U.S. Supreme Court Rules on How ERISA Benefit-Claim Fiduciaries Should Handle Conflicts of Interest

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  July 2008 (No. 4)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• Understanding the Option Dating Controversies—Part IV: Best Practices

  [Article]
  Employee Benefit Plan Review
  July 2008
  

• Understanding the Option Dating Controversies—Part III: Practical Problems and Issues

  [Article]
  Employee Benefit Plan Review
  June 2008
  

• SEC Update—Ninth Circuit Permits Simultaneous Civil & Criminal Investigations; Bush Nominates Two Democrats to Fill Vacancies on SEC; SEC Successfully Uses Sarbanes-Oxley Escrow Provision to Avoid Pending Executive Bonus; SEC Proposes Short Sale Rule: SEC to Propose Registration for “Finders”

  [Article]
  Wall Street Lawyer
  May 2008
  

• Understanding the Option Dating Controversies—Part II: An Overview of the Law and Legal Issues

  [Article]
  Employee Benefit Plan Review
  May 2008
  

• ERISA Litigation Digest

  [Alert]
  ERISA Litigation Digest
  May 2008 (No. 1)
  Anthony A. Mingione
  

• Understanding the Option Dating Controversies—Part I: Setting the Stage

  [Article]
  Employee Benefit Plan Review
  April 2008
  

• Executive Compensation Best Practices

  [Book]
  John Wiley & Sons
  2008
  Frederick D. Lipman
  

• Mortgage Crisis Fallout Continues: Bankers’ Executive Pay and Insider Stock Sales under Congressional Microscope

  [Alert]
  Subprime Mortgage Update
  March 2008 (No. 1)
  Joseph G. Poluka and Lewis W. Schlossberg
  

• Family Responsibilities Discrimination: Does It Really Exist?

  [Article]
  Legal Intelligencer
  March 14, 2008
  Anthony B. Haller
  

• U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division’s 2007 Record Wage Recovery Highlights Importance of Wage and Hour Compliance

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  March 2008 (No. 2)
  

• Supreme Court Permits Suing 401(k) Fiduciaries for Losses in Individual Accounts

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  March 2008 (No. 3)
  

• EEOC Issues Final Rule on Retiree Health Benefits Exemption

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  February 2008 (No. 2)
  

• Performance-Contingent Payment May Not Be Deductible

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  February 2008 (No. 1)
  Joseph T. Gulant, Barry L. Klein and Cory G. Jacobs
  

• Activist Shareholders Demand "Say on Pay"

  [Alert]
  The Guardian: Company-Side Shareholder Activism Alert
  February 2008 (No. 2)
  Barry H. Genkin
  

• Employee Benefits in Bankruptcy

  [Article]
  ERISA–A Comprehensive Guide, (Co-author, Aspen Publishers, Inc.)
  2008
  

• SEC Adopts Rule Limiting Shareholder Access

  [Alert]
  Corporate and Securities Update
  January 2008 (No. 1)
  

• SEC Adopts Exemptions from Registration under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for Compensatory Employee Stock Options

  [Alert]
  Corporate and Securities Update
  December 2007 (No. 17)
  

• Trend in States Enacting Domestic Violence Leave Laws

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  December 2007 (No. 7)
  

• Meeting the Section 409A Deadline

  [Article]
  Corporate Counselor
  November 2007
  Frederick D. Lipman and Barry L. Klein
  

• IRS, DOL Clear the Way for Automatic Enrollment in 401(k), 403(b) Plans

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  November 2007 (No. 3)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• The Expanding Role of the Compensation Committee

  [Article]
  Legal Intelligencer
  November 19, 2007
  Yelena M. Barychev
  

• IRS, DOL Clear the Way for Automatic Enrollment in 401(k), 403(b) Plans

  [Article]
  Pennsylvania Bar Association Business Law Section Newsletter
  Winter 2007
  Barry L. Klein
  

• Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision Limiting Time to Bring Pay Discrimination Claim May Be “Overruled” by Legislation

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  September 2007 (No. 4)
  Julie E. Reid
  

• Leveling the Playing Field or Unhinging It Further? New State Laws Seek to Offer Even More Protections for Employees

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  September 2007 (No. 5)
  

• IRS Provides Partial Delay of 409A Requirements

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  September 2007 (No. 2)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• IRS Issues Final 403(b) Regulations

  [Alert]
  Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update
  August 2007 (No. 1)
  Barry L. Klein
  

• Immediate Action Required as a Result of the Adoption of Section 409A Rules

  [Alert]
  Tax Alert
  July 2007 (No. 1)
  

• An Emerging Trend: Gender Identity as a Protected Characteristic

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  July 2007 (No. 3)
  Tara G. La Fiura
  

• It's Federally Preempted—Let's Remove It!

  [Article]
  New York Law Journal
  February 2007
  Harris N. Cogan
  

• Employers Beware EEOC Information Request

  [Article]
  Law Journal Newsletters' The Corporate Counselor
  December 2006
  Mark Blondman and Brooke T. Iley
  

• Changes to New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act (Whistleblower Law) Posting and Notice Requirements

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  August 2005 (#5)
  

• Human Resource Perils Inherent with Sarbanes-Oxley

  [Article]
  The Legal Intelligencer
  June 8, 2005
  

• Employers Cannot (Yet) Offer Different Levels Of Benefits To Medicare Eligible Retirees

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  May 2005 (#4)
  

• Most Pennsylvania Employers Are Now Required to Retain Legal Counsel to Represent Their Interests at Unemployment Compensation Proceedings

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  May 2005 (#4)
  

• More Age Discrimination Claims May Be Coming Your Way

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  May 2005 (#4)
  

• American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 - Deferred Compensation Provisions

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  January 2005 (#1)
  

• Employers in California Beware – New Law Makes Supervisory Sexual Harassment Training Mandatory!

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  November 2004 (#8)
  

• Sleeker And Smarter Union Organization Strategies Are Proving More Successful

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  August 2004 (#6)
  

• Employers On Alert! Supreme Court Says Title VII Applies When Employees Forced to Quit

  [Article]
  Law Journal Newsletters—The Corporate Counselor
  July 2004
  Scott F. Cooper and Julie E. Reid
  

• Judge Certifies Class in Wal-Mart Glass Ceiling Case

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  June 2004 (#5)
  

• Non-Union Workers are No Longer Entitled to Representation During Investigatory Interviews That May Lead to Disciplinary Action

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  June 2004 (#5)
  

• U.S. Department of Labor Issues Sweeping Overhaul of Overtime Regulations

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  May 2004 (#4)
  

• Preferential Treatment Of Older Workers Not Prohibited By The ADEA

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  April 2004 (#3)
  

• Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Protections Extended to Employees of Non-Publicly Traded Subsidiaries

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  April 2004 (#3)
  

• New Jersey's New Domestic Partnership Act Impacts Employment, Housing, Lending And Other Laws

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  April 2004 (#2)
  

• Employers Beware - Retaliation Against An Employee Who Makes a Discrimination Complaint Can Prove Costly

  [Article]
  The Law Journal Newsletters (LJN) - The Corporate Counselor
  April 2004
  Mark Blondman and Brooke T. Iley
  

• What You Need to Know About ERISA's Fiduciary Responsibility Rules

  [Article]
  ALI-ABA Business Law Journal
  2004
  Donald D. Gamburg
  

• Failure to Pay New Jersey Prevailing Wages May Lead You Straight To Jail!

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  March 2004
  

• New Jersey Joins New York And Bans Hand-Held Cell Phone Use While Driving

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  March 2004
  

• FLSA and Financial Services Organizations: What to Know

  [Article]
  Workindex.com
  March 5, 2004
  Jennifer Hale Eagland
  

• Employees Required to Participate in Investigatory Interviews Have the Right to the Representative of Their Choice

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  October 2003
  

• Third Circuit Decision Impacts Employers’ Ability to Defend Against Discrimination Claims - Making Preventive Training More Important Than Ever

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  June 2003
  

• U.S. Department of Labor Proposes Sweeping Changes To Fair Labor Standards Act Regulations

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  May 2003 (#2)
  

• SARS Issues In The Workplace

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  May 2003
  

• An Employer's Guide To Military Leave Obligations Under The Uniformed Services Employment And Reemployment Rights Act

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Alert
  May 2003
  

• Seniority Systems and the ADA

  [Article]
  Employee Benefit Plan Review
  March 2003
  Donald D. Gamburg
  

• Doing Business on Cell Phones Can Increase An Employer’s Risk of Liability

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  March 2003
  

• Department of Labor Issues Guidance On Exempt Status of Insurance Claims Adjusters

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  March 2003
  

• E-mails: Are They Solicitations Or Distributions

  [Alert]
  Employment, Benefits & Labor Update
  March 2003
  

• HIPAA: It Also Applies to the Business Corporation

  [Alert]
  HIPAA Alert
  February 2003 (No. 1)
  

• New California Law Allowing Paid Family And Medical Leave Raises Employers' Eyebrows

  [Alert]
  Labor & Employment Law Alert
  October 2002
  

• The Enron Effect: Will The Fall of America’s CEOs Revive The Dying Flame Of The Labor Movement?

  [Alert]
  Labor & Employment Law Update (Includes New Jersey Update)
  Fall 2002
  

• Employers Need Not Hire An Individual Suffering From A Disability When The Position Sought Poses A Threat To That Individual

  [Alert]
  Labor & Employment Law Update (Includes New Jersey Update)
  Fall 2002
  

• The Expanding Boundaries Of Third Party Retaliation Under The ADA

  [Alert]
  Labor & Employment Law Update (Includes New Jersey Update)
  Fall 2002
  

• E-mail and the Internet in the Workplace

  [Article]
  The Philadelphia Lawyer
  Spring 2002
  Donald D. Gamburg
  

• Conducting Company Investigations

  [Article]
  Workplace Violence Prevention Reporter
  March 2002
  Brooke T. Iley
  

• Technological Misconduct

  [Article]
  Smart Business Now
  February 2002
  Donald D. Gamburg
  

• Managing Leave Law in MD, VA and Washington

  [Article]
  Workindex.com
  February 1, 2001
  Brooke T. Iley
  

• Disability Plans Providing Different Coverage for Mental and Physical Disabilities Do Not Violate the ADA

  [Article]
  Maryland State Bar Association Labor and Employment Section
  August 2000
  Brooke T. Iley
  

• Comment: Steel Industry Watch Out! The Kyoto Protocol is Lurking

  [Article]
  11 Vill. Envir. L.J. 161
  2000
  

• Author: Public Pension Fund Raids - The Modern Shell Game, Employee Benefits Issues

  [Article]
  International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
  1999
  

• Hiring the Disabled

  [Article]
  Philadelphia Enterpriser Magazine
  May/June 1999
  Donald D. Gamburg
  

• When Office Romances Go Bad

  [Article]
  Philadelphia Enterpriser Magazine
  January/February 1999
  Donald D. Gamburg
  

• Fair Housing Guidelines & Minority Advertising: Current Issues for Senior Housing Providers

  [Article]
  National Investment Center
  October 1998
  Donald D. Gamburg
  

• Co-author: Litigation Avoidance - A Must for Every Employer

  [Article]
  Credit World
  1996
  

• Gonzalez-Rivera v. INS: An Unwarranted Application of the Exclusionary Rule to Civil Deportation Hearings

  [Article]
  40 Vill. L. Rev. 1133
  1995
  

• NLRB Rules Employee Committee Unlawful

  [Article]
  Industry Forum
  June, 1993
  Michael J. Hanlon
  

• Perspective: Ending the Culture of Confrontation

  [Article]
  Human Resource Executive
  March 1993
  Michael J. Hanlon
  

• Co-Author: Legal Traps in Employee Committees

  [Article]
  Labor Law Journal, October, 1992 and Management Review
  November 1992
  Michael J. Hanlon
  

• Co-Author: New Rules Applicable to Rollover Distributions: Will Rollovers Be More Costly to the Taxpayer?

  [Article]
  The Pension Actuary
  October 1992
  Arthur Bachman
  

• Professionally Speaking - Labor Law Should Define Role of Work Teams

  [Article]
  HR Magazine
  August 1992
  Michael J. Hanlon
  

• Author: Affiliated Service Group Rules: An Overview

  [Article]
  Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance
  Summer 1992
  Arthur Bachman
  

• ERISA: A Comprehensive Guide

  [Book]
  Co-author (John Wiley & Sons)
  1991-97
  Arthur Bachman
  

• Commentary: "NLRB Case Will Affect Labor, Management Future

  [Article]
  Philadelphia Business Journal
  October 21-27, 1991
  Michael J. Hanlon
  
  

• Contract Disclaimers in Policy Documents

  [Article]
  Personnel Administrator
  August 1987
  Michael J. Hanlon
  

• Co-Author: How to Defer Income With IRA's and Section 401(k) Plans

  [Article]
  Prentice-Hall booklet part of Federal Taxes Service and Pension and Profit Sharing Service,
  August 1987
  Arthur Bachman
  

• Workplace Testing: Mucky Legal Waters

  [Article]
  Personnel Administrator
  June 1987
  Michael J. Hanlon
  

• Labor's New Organizing Agenda

  [Article]
  Small Business Report
  May 1987
  Michael J. Hanlon
  

• Co-Author: The REA's Joint and Survivor Annuity Rules, coping with the Regulations

  [Article]
  Prentice-Hall booklet part of Pension and Profit Sharing Service
  July 1986
  Arthur Bachman