20th Annual Employee Benefits Update 2024

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20th Annual Employee Benefits Update 2024

The best laid benefit plans

Robust benefit plans are one way that employers attract, retain, and motivate top talent. But as any attorney in the business of helping employers take care of their employees knows, the world of employment compensation and benefits is complex and constantly changing.

Make things simple with the comprehensive overview you’ll receive at the 20th Annual Employee Benefits Update. Ensure your clients are offering their employees the best compensation and benefit plans possible with in-depth updates on a broad range of topics, including:

  • Legislative and regulatory updates concerning retirement planning
  • Fiduciary considerations for health and welfare plans
  • How the FTC’s final rule banning noncompetes impacts nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plans
  • Recent changes to executive compensation in employment agreements
8:30 am
Fiduciary Considerations for Health and Welfare Plans

David Eckhardt

9:20 am
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Update

Rebecca Greene

10:10 am
Break
10:25 am
Retirement Plan Legislative and Regulatory Update

Brian L. Anderson

11:15 am
Annual Executive Compensation Update

Martin P. Tierney

12:05 pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
1:05 pm
Executive Compensation in Employment Agreements

Leigh C. Riley

1:55 pm
Non-Compete Rule and the Effect on Nonqualified Deferred Plans

Mary Ellen Schill

2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
ERISA Case Law Update

John B. Tuffnell

  • Latest Developments and Trends
  • A Discussion of Recent Supreme Court and Seventh Circuit Decisions
3:50 pm
Program Concludes

Program Chair

Michael W. Taibleson
Godfrey & Kahn S.C. · Milwaukee

Presenters

7 total
Brian L. Anderson
DeWitt LLP · Madison
David Eckhardt
Husch Blackwell LLP · Milwaukee
Rebecca Greene
Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, S.C. · Milwaukee
Leigh C. Riley
Foley & Lardner LLP · Milwaukee
Mary Ellen Schill
Ruder Ware L.L.S.C. · Wausau
Martin P. Tierney
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP · Milwaukee
John B. Tuffnell
Salberg Tuffnell Law, S.C. · Milwaukee

  • Help employers maintain a competitive benefits package for employees
  • Determine how the FTC’s rule banning noncompetes could impact employee retention
  • Explore how Employee Stock Ownership Plans can help retain key employees
  • Get up to speed on recent changes to executive compensation
  • Keep up with the latest ERISA case law
  • Employee benefits lawyers
  • Health lawyers
  • Labor and employment lawyers
  • Insurance lawyers
  • Business lawyers
  • In-house counsel
  • General practitioners

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