Antoinette Pilzner

Practice Areas

Employee benefits and ERISA | Executive compensation and governance

Career

Toni focuses her practice in the areas of ERISA, employee benefits, and executive compensation. She has over 25 years of legal experience in establishing, revising and terminating benefit plans and executive compensation programs to address business needs and changes in federal law. Toni also counsels clients on administering benefit plans and executive compensation programs to comply with ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code. She draws on her pre-law school experience as a certified public accountant and an in-house tax specialist working with employee plans to help clients find practical, real world solutions to employee benefit plan design, administration, and communication challenges.

From 2006 through 2009, she served on the Employee Benefits Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. From 2002 to 2005, she served on the Department of Labor’s Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans under U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and was chair of the Council’s 2005 Working Group on Communications to Retirement Plan Participants. She has been a frequent speaker and writer on employee benefits and executive compensation topics.

Toni earned her J.D., cum laude, from Wayne State University Law School in 1995. She received a M.S. in Taxation with distinction from Walsh College of Accountancy and Business Administration in 1990, and a B.A., with high distinction, from Wayne State University in 1982.