This two-day National Institute offers an approach to ERISA from a purely litigation perspective, emphasizing the practical, not the theoretical. Designed for litigators, benefits practitioners and ERISA specialists who want to enhance their substantive ERISA knowledge; this program will focus on tips, techniques and advice from successful, experienced plaintiff and defense ERISA litigators. Comprehensive course materials will provide a resource for future study.
• Litigators who handle ERISA cases and want to enhance their substantive ERISA knowledge
• Benefits practitioners who wish to further their knowledge of the substantive law and most recent case law
• Litigators who find themselves confronting ERISA preemption issues on an increasing basis
• ERISA specialists who draft plan language and render advice about plan administration, trying to minimize the risk of litigation
• Litigators seeking to develop expertise in this growing field of practice
