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LAWRENCE F.
SCHILLER
Mr. Schiller specializes in qualified retirement plans and
non-qualified deferred compensation arrange-ments, including all
aspects of ERISA, retirement plan tax issues, and employee
benefits.
Experience:
Larry began his
practice with tax-qualified retirement plans shortly after the
passage of ERISA. As legal counsel to large and small for-profit
and non-profit entities, Larry provides legal advice and services
relating to all aspects of design, implementation, compliance and
correction of qualified plans and non-qualified retirement arrange-ments,
including, among others, 401(k) plans, defined benefit plans, target
benefit plans, executive compensation arrangements and employee
benefits, including matters relating to tax consequence and
fiduciary obligations. He also has represented third-party
administrators with regard to compliance and administrative issues
relating to plans they administer.
Memberships:
Larry is a past
Chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Section of Taxation
of the State Bar of Michigan, the Employee Benefits Committee of the
Oakland County Bar Association, and the Michigan Employee Benefits
Conference. He has given presentations on tax-qualified retirement
plans for a number of professional organizations, including the
State Bar of Michigan, the Michigan Association of Certified Public
Accountants, the Oakland County Bar Association, the American
Society of Employers, the Detroit Chapter of the International
Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, the Michigan
Chapter of the International Association of Financial Planners, the
Independent Accountants Association of Michigan and the Michigan
Chapter of the National Association of Tax Practitioners.
Teaching &
Articles:
Larry has served
as an adjunct professor, teaching pension and ERISA courses, at
Wayne State University Law School and the University of
Detroit-Mercy School of Law, and has taught in Oakland University's
Legal Assistant Program, Certified Employee Benefits Specialist
Program, and Certified Financial Planner Program.
Larry has
authored "Proposed ERISA Vesting Regulations: Not What They Seem To
Be" in the Journal of Corporation Law (1981), which was cited by the
U.S. Supreme Court in Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., 451 U.S.
503, 513 fn. 10 (1981). He also has authored pension articles that
have appeared in the Michigan Tax Lawyer (published by the Section
of Taxation of the State Bar of Michigan), in Laches (the Journal of
the Oakland County Bar Association) and in Michigan Forward
(published by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce), and has served as
Employee Benefits Current Developments Editor for the Tax Lawyer
(published by the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association).
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