Ronald Richman

Practice Areas

Co-head of the firm's Employment & Employee Benefits Group. Concentrates focus on the litigation of employee benefits and restrictive covenant cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States involving trade secrets, non-competition, nonsolicit, and breach of confidentiality and breach of loyalty issues. Defends employee benefit plans, fiduciaries and employers in class actions and in cases brought by individual plaintiffs. Also represents employers, employee benefit plans, fiduciaries and investment managers before the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service in connection with novel issues of law concerning plan mergers, terminations, spin-offs, fiduciary duties and prohibited transactions, and various aspects of withdrawal liability and mass withdrawal liability. Has litigated, arbitrated and advised on several hundred withdrawal liability matters for multiemployer pension funds and employers. Also represents employers (particularly hedge and private equity funds), employees and partners with respect to executive compensation and partnership issues. Has been very active in advising and representing employers and multiemployer pension plans in connection with the pension provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act.

Personal

Columbia Law School, J.D., 1981

• Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

• Emil Schlesinger Labor Law Prize

Cornell University, B.S., 1978