Forfeitures in Qualified Retirement Plans: Recent Lawsuits, Challenges, Mitigating Compliance Risks

Ms.Camp is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's West Palm Beach and Atlanta offices. She defends companies, fiduciaries and executives throughout the United States in Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), labor and employment, and business disputes. Ms.Camp has experience litigating complex cases involving ERISA, federal securities laws, federal whistleblower statutes, anti-discrimination laws, trade secrets and business disputes. During the course of her career, she has defended a number of class actions and ERISA breach of fiduciary duty actions. Ms. Camp also has experience with matters involving employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), 401(k) plans, Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) notices, medical benefit plans, securities fraud, and trade secrets and covenants-not-to-compete. She has significant experience successfully litigating these cases to settlement, summary judgment and verdict. Ms. Camp is a frequent lecturer and writer on a wide range of ESOP, employee benefits, employment- and business-related issues, including ERISA compliance and preemption, and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) audits and investigations.

Ms. Perkowski is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Atlanta office. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation matters involving labor and employment issues, disputes under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), business disputes and product liability and mass torts. Ms. Perkowski has substantial experience in all aspects of complex litigation, including fact discovery, expert discovery, motions practice, trials and appeals. She has developed expert witnesses, prepared company witnesses for deposition, first-chaired numerous depositions and drafted dispositive motions and appellate briefs. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Perkowski was an associate at a large international law firm in New York, where her practice focused on complex commercial litigation, with a particular concentration in pharmaceutical product liability and mass tort matters.

Mr. Wozniak is a trial attorney and the leader of Holland & Knight's ERISA Litigation Team and Atlanta Litigation Practice Group. He defends companies, fiduciaries and public institutions throughout the United States in Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), labor and employment, and business disputes. Mr. Wozniak is also experienced in wage-and-hour litigation, state and federal whistleblower statutes, non-discrimination laws, plant closing and mass layoff laws, collective bargaining and traditional labor relations, executive contracts and compensation, non-compete and trade secrets litigation, and partnership/business disputes. During his career, he has defended dozens of class or collective actions and tried more than 40 cases or arbitrations to verdict. In addition, Mr. Wozniak is a frequent lecturer and writer on a wide range of ESOP, employee benefits, employment and business-related issues, including ERISA compliance and preemption, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) audits and investigations, protecting trade secrets, implementing reductions-in-force, pre-dispute arbitration agreements and programs, class action defense, eDiscovery, and wage-and-hour compliance.