| Biography:
Ira M. Golub practices exclusively in the employee benefits area. The nature
of Ira's practice embraces virtually all aspects of employee benefits law, ranging
from the establishment and design of pension, profit-sharing, welfare and executive
compensation plans to the administration and termination of such programs.
Ira, a partner of the Firm, has worked extensively with both single employer
and multiemployer pension and welfare funds. He serves as fund counsel to numerous
multiemployer funds in a variety of industries, providing advice to trustees
and administrators in connection with the operation and maintenance of the funds.
His understanding of the issues emanating from the operation of multiemployer
funds is enhanced by his experience in effecting the termination and mergers
of funds and representing contributing employers in disputes with employee benefit
plans (addressing such issues as withdrawal liability). Ira also regularly works
with government-sponsored employee benefit plans, which are not subject to ERISA.
Over the years, Ira has developed a particular capability representing plan
sponsors and trustees in connection with the full range of fiduciary and other
plan asset and investment issues. He also has a breadth of knowledge with respect
to issues related to welfare programs, and is considered a leading authority
with respect to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985,
as amended ("COBRA"), and Health Savings Accounts ("HSAs").
He frequently has been involved in providing legal advice to large corporations
in connection with reductions-in-force, and with respect to the employee benefit
aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Ira is a member of the American Bar Association and serves on the Labor and
Employment Law Section, Subcommittee on Welfare Plans. He also has been appointed
to the Committee on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, and to the
COBRA Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Welfare Benefit Plans of the ABA's
Section of Business Law.
Ira has published the 2005 COBRA Handbook, a comprehensive text on COBRA. Ira
is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance
and is a member of the Board of Editors of HR Advisor.
He is a member of the New York and California Bars and is admitted to practice
before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts
of New York and the United States Tax Court. He received his Juris Doctor from
Georgetown University Law Center and his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Ira has been employed
by a national actuarial consulting firm and was a trial attorney with the National
Labor Relations Board.
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