Attorneys

Ronald E. Richman

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919 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10022
United States of America
P: +1 212.756.2048
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Ronald E. Richman is a partner in the New York office and co-head of the Employment & Employee Benefits Group. Ron concentrates his practice on litigating employment and employee benefits cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States.  He litigates numerous cases involving trade secrets, non-competition, non-solicit, and breach of confidentiality and breach of loyalty issues. He defends employee benefit plans, fiduciaries, and employers in both class actions and cases brought by individual plaintiffs. He represents employee benefit plans before the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service in connection with many novel issues of law concerning plan mergers, terminations, spin-offs, fiduciary duties and prohibited transactions, as well as various aspects of withdrawal liability and mass withdrawal liability. Ron also represents employers (particularly hedge and private equity funds), employees, and partners with respect to executive compensation and partnership issues.

Ron is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and a member of the CPR Employment Dispute Committee of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. A former adjunct professor in New York University School of Continuing Education’s Certified Employee Benefits Specialist Program, Ron frequently speaks and writes on employee benefit and employment topics of interest to the H.R. community, such as his “Tips on Complying with U.S. Department of Labor Fee Disclosure Rules,” which appeared in Human Resources 2008, Summer Edition and a presentation he gave on “Recent Trends In ERISA 401(k) Stock Drop Litigation” at LEI’s 2010 National CLE Conference Employee Benefits Program. Ron received a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the recipient of the Emil Schlesinger Labor Law Prize.

Selected Publications

SRZ Employment & Employee Benefits Newsletter, Fall 2009

“Tips on Complying with U.S. Department of Labor Fee Disclosure Rules,” Human Resources 2008, Summer Edition

“New York State’s Newest Protected Classification: Sexual Orientation,” SRZ Client Alert, January 2003 (co-author)

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Selected Speaking Engagements

“Recent Trends in ERISA 401(k) Stock Drop Litigation,” LEI's 27th National CLE Conference, Employee Benefits Program, Vail, CO, January 2010

“Recent Trends in ERISA 401(k) Stock Drop Litigation,” LEI's 26th National CLE Conference, Employee Benefits Program, Vail, CO, January 2009

“ERISA Fiduciary Issues-401(k) fees and 404 (c),” LEI's 25th National CLE Conference, Employee Benefits Program, Vail, CO, January 2008

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Memberships

CPR Employment Dispute Committee of the CPR Institute for Dispute
   Resolution
Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
Board of Directors of the Lawyers Alliance for New York

Bar Admissions

  • New York

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Supreme Court 1984
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit 1984
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit 1984
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit 1984
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit 1984
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York 1982
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York 1982
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York 1982
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of New York 1982

Education

  • Columbia Law School, J.D., 1981
    • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  • Cornell University, B.S., 1978

Prior Experience

Co-chair, Employment & ERISA Department, Chadbourne & Parke LLP

Academic
Adjunct Professor, New York University School of Continuing Education
   Certified Employee Benefits Specialist Program, 1985