KMK’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group provides practical, creative solutions to our clients across a broad spectrum of employment-related matters. Our firm’s culture focuses on providing counsel based on solid business judgment, multidimensional legal reasoning, and responsive customer service to all our clients.
Our diverse group of clients includes large publicly traded companies, smaller privately-held businesses, and non-profit organizations. In each situation, the set of circumstances is distinctive, often requiring legal advice in real time that is grounded in business knowledge—a perfect fit for our entrepreneurial-focused firm. We take the time to listen, so we can provide useful approaches that will meet the specific needs and requirements of our clients.
KMK’s Employee Benefits attorneys have the bench strength and depth of experience needed to effectively counsel clients with diverse benefits practices covering all benefits areas, including:
Retirement plans
Medical plans
Welfare plans
Health care reform (ACA)
Executive compensation
HIPAA privacy matters
We work with our clients, and others, across departments and at various levels within their companies, including in-house counsel, human resource specialists, benefits department personnel, and financial officers. With our mix of lawyers and benefit consultants, we are able to staff any project appropriately and cost effectively—from the most sophisticated or complicated projects to the more daily routine matters. Examples include:
Assisting with compliance issues
Advising on fiduciary requirements
Drafting and reviewing plan documents
Generating employee communication (SPD, SBC, SAR and notices)
Negotiating service agreements
Completing QDRO reviews, approval or rejection
Managing day-to-day legal matters
Planning for benefit changes or significant corporate events that impact benefits
Performing due diligence for corporate transactions
Analysis, planning and negotiating employee-benefit matters in connection with corporate transactions
Handling post-transaction benefit transition and integration issues
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Prudence (not Preference) Prevails in 401(k) Plan Fee Case | 2025 HSA, HDHP, and Excepted Benefit HRA Limits | Court Not Wild About Wilderness Therapy Coverage
Indigestion from Turkey and Stuffing or the IRS’ Proposed LTPT Regulations? | IRS Increases COLA Adjustments for 2024 | Slam Dunk for Prosecutors in NBA Health Care Fraud Win
When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, You’re Entitled to a Reasonable Alternative | Gag Clause Annual Attestation Deadline Approaches | Lower Affordability Percentage Increases Employer Costs
Seventh Circuit Upholds Unambiguous Eligibility Standard | IDR Process is Up and Running | DOL to Prudential: You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat it, too!
Final Rules on Electronic Filing Requirements | Pre-Deductible Telehealth Coverage Extended | The End (of the Public Health and National Emergency) Is Near
IRS Extends CARES Act and Relief Act Deadlines | Company Stock Over -Valuation Puts Plan Sponsor and Trustee Under Water | Flagrant Foul by NBA Player Guilty of Defrauding Health Plan
What the Hack? Malware Leads to Stiff HIPAA Penalties | Court OKs Actively Managed Investment Options | You Can’t Get Blood from a Turnip – Unless the Plan Documents So Provide
Machine Readable File Posting Update | IRS Plan Examination Pilot Program - Will It Take Flight? | Summer is for Fun, Sun, and PCORI Fees | Compliance Alert - Cycle 3 Restatement Deadline *July 31*
Coverage of At-Home COVID-19 Tests | New Guidance on Group Health Plan Provider Compensation Disclosure Rules | Revised Auditing Standards for ERISA Plans
New Guidance For DC Plan Lifetime Income Illustrations | ARPA COBRA Subsidy Expiration and Notice Deadline | Enforcement Delays for Health Plan Transparency
IRS Clarifies COBRA Premium Subsidy Rules | You're Safe from Partial Plan Termination | Federal Tax Treatment of DCAP Relief | A Sign of the Times: IRS Releases Adjusted HSA, HDHP and Excepted Benefit HRA Rates
DOL Releases Retirement Plan Cybersecurity Best Practices | (Employer Stock) Should You Drop It Like It's Hot? | DOL Clarifies Mental Health Parity Compliance and the New Comparative Analyses Requirements
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 - Benefits Highlights | IRS Guidance on Consolidated Appropriations Act Implementation (Part II) | It Ain't Over 'Til the DOL Sings (an Encore)
If You Like Your (Grandfathered) Plan, You Can Keep It - For Even Longer | SECURE Act Q&As on Safe Harbor Automatic Enrollment and Nonelective Plan Requirements | Final Rules on Rollovers of Qualified Plan Loan Offsets
It's Final: Pecuniary Considerations Must Steer Fiduciary Investment Decisions | Shedding Light on the New Health Plan Transparency Rule | Taking the Sting Out of COBRA
IRS Updates Health and Retirement Plan Benefit and Contribution Limits for 2021 | ESRP Penalties Increase for 2021 | More Relief for Furnishing 2020 ACA Information Returns
A More Secure 402(f) Notice | Pushing the Need on Affordability - 2021 Increase to 9.83% | Open for Business in Cycle 3 | Tax Treatment of COVID-19 Leave-Based Donation Programs
Actual Knowledge Means Aware: Supreme Court Upholds Participant Win in Intel Case | Spending Package Impacts Cadillac Tax and PCORI Fees | Open Questions About Insider Information for Plan Fiduciaries That Offer Investment in Employer Stock
In the Spirit of Giving, IRS Extends and Expands ACA Reporting Relief | Sun Sets on Lower Court Sun Capital Ruling | Pricing Transparency - But At What Cost?
New E-Disclosure Rules on the Horizon | Bit by the COBRA! Notice Defects Bring Painful Sting | Time's Up! Court Strictly Applies ERISA Claim Review Deadlines
What Lies Ahead for Your Rx Accumulator Program? | It's Inevitable: No Exclusion for Uncashed Distribution Checks | DOL Paves the Way for Combined Small Business Retirement Plans
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