Jay Jensen is an associate in the Labor Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group.
Jay’s practice focuses on the design, compliance, and administration of single employer and multiemployer pension and welfare plans. He helps plan sponsors navigate plan mergers, spin-offs, and terminations, obtain determination letters and compliance statements from the Internal Revenue Service, and implement trust and custodial agreements and other plan-related contracts.
Before joining Proskauer, Jay was a staff attorney in the Tulane University Office of the General Counsel, advising on a broad range of legal issues, including labor and employment, non-profit taxation, regulatory compliance, data privacy, and general business transactions.
Jay received his J.D. from Tulane University Law School, where he trained as a student attorney in the Civil Rights and Federal Practice Clinic and received best speaker and brief awards competing in appellate moot court.
Education
- Tulane University Law School, J.D.
- University of Chicago, M.A.
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock, B.A.
Admissions & Qualifications
- Louisiana
Memberships
Federal Bar Association
New Orleans Bar Association