ERISA Preemption and Employee Benefit Claims: Recent Court Decisions, Causes of Action, Plan Administration

Mr. Jara has over 20 years of ERISA and employee benefits experience, ranging from governmental compliance, fiduciary liability insurance, to the application of ERISA’s fiduciary standards and prohibited transaction provisions. Mr. Jara has extensive experience resolving issues for corporate plan sponsors and multiemployer plans before the U.S. Department of Labor, where he was formerly a senior pension law specialist and investigator.

Ms. McCarthy is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Chicago office and a member of the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, class actions and litigation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Ms. McCarthy represents clients in a wide array of complex business disputes, financial services litigation and class actions. She has significant experience handling claims across a variety of industries for breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and other business torts. Ms. McCarthy also represents companies and individuals in the prosecution and defense of restrictive covenant, trade secret claims and other employment-based claims. She has experience representing clients in complex financial services matters, with a particular focus on distressed real estate and commercial foreclosures. Ms. McCarthy also represents commercial landlords and tenants in lease disputes. She serves as the client development leader for Holland & Knight's Real Estate and Hospitality Industry Sector Group.