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Ronald E. Richman

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, co-head of the Employment & Employee Benefits Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. His practice concentrates on the litigation of employment and employee benefits 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. Ron defends employee benefit plans, fiduciaries, and employers in class actions and in 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 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. 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 has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America as a leading labor and employment litigation attorney. He received a B.S. from the Industrial and Labor Relations School at 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 Developments: Special Healthcare Reform Issue, Winter 2012 (co-author)

“Is Moench the End of the Road for Employer ‘Stock Drop’ Claims? The ERISA ‘Stock Drop’ Framework Following the Second Circuit’s Adoption of the Moench Presumption in In re: Citigroup ERISA Litigation,” BNA Pension & Benefits Daily, Jan. 9, 2012 (co-author)

“IRS Launches New Voluntary Classification Settlement Program,” SRZ Client Alert, Nov. 23, 2011 (co-author)

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Selected Speaking Engagements

“Mobility of Investment Management Professionals and Executives,” SRZ 21st Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar, New York, January 2012

“Stock Drop Litigation: Are We Done Yet?” National CLE Conference, Snowmass, CO, January 2012 

“The Last Case Standing: What Every Non-ERISA Litigator Should Know About ERISA Stock-Drop Cases,” Federal Bar Council ERISA Litigation, New York, December 2011

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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 (former)

Other Distinctions

The Best Lawyers in America
New York Super Lawyers

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
    • Emil Schlesinger Labor Law Prize
  • 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, 1985-1990