Aftermath of Dobbs: Key Issues for Employee Benefit Plans, Plan Sponsors, and Administrators

Mr. Bianchi is an experienced Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation lawyer who advises corporate, not-for-profit, governmental, and individual clients on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, health, and welfare plans. He represented the Romney Administration in connection with the historic 2006 Massachusetts health care reform act, and he testified before the Senate Finance Committee in the lead-up to the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Bianchi published works include the Bloomberg/Bureau of National Affairs Health Care Reform Advisor (T.M. 335), a comprehensive study of the impact of the Affordable Care Act on employers and employer-sponsored group health plans. In 2025, he earned a certificate in AI in Health Care: From Strategies to Implementation from Harvard Medical School Executive Education, reflecting a growing focus on AI in health care for plan sponsors. Mr. Bianchi is a past chair of the Bloomberg Tax Compensation Planning Journal Advisory Board, and he was awarded the 2023 Bloomberg Tax Leonard L. Silverstein Award for Distinguished Service in Tax.

Ms. Downs advises and assists plan administrators and fiduciaries with the design, drafting and administration of welfare and pension plans, including qualified and non-qualified plans, as well as ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, and COBRA compliance issues. She defends claims under ERISA for benefits, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and claims for equitable relief and discrimination for ERISA plan sponsors, plan administrators, fiduciaries, and third-party administrators.

Ms. Watson focuses on ERISA and employee benefits. She concentrates on a wide array of areas including, pension and profit sharing plans, health and welfare benefit plans, including COBRA, HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act, ERISA fiduciary decision-making, Employee Stock Ownership Plans, benefits litigation backup, benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits aspects of family law, labor laws affecting employee benefits, other employee benefits and deferred Compensation, and employee benefit disputes and employee benefits claims.