Employee Benefits Practice

For over three decades Spencer Fane’s Employee Benefits Group has helped clients navigate the complex set of rules and regulations that govern employee benefit plans. Our experience in the field has attracted both regional and national clients, from both coasts and the central United States. We listen to our clients’ concerns and communicate practical and creative solutions that they can understand and implement. The size of our Group and the breadth of its knowledge allow us to serve our clients in a prompt, thorough, yet cost-effective manner.

Spencer Fane also has a dedicated ERISA Litigation Practice Group consisting of attorneys whose practice is focused on this rapidly expanding area of litigation. Our nationally recognized expertise and experience enable us to bring concentrated, partner-level resources and practical considerations to bear for our clients. Using a “team” approach, ERISA litigators work with members of our Employee Benefits Group to identify and take advantage of claims and defenses that are hidden within the minutiae of ERISA and the Tax Code.

We believe that employee benefits and ERISA litigation expertise resides in individuals, not institutions, and that individuals with such expertise reside not only on the east and west coasts, but also in the Midwest. Individual members of Spencer Fane’s Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation Groups have as much education and expertise as our contemporaries at large law firms on the coasts. We are able to give our clients the same level of sophisticated analysis and advice, but with one important difference: We do so with Midwestern sensibilities.