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Carol Buckmann has been selected to Law360’s 2025 Benefits Editorial Advisory Board for the second consecutive year. In this role, she will provide guidance on key trends, regulatory developments and pressing issues shaping ERISA and employee benefits law.
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Private equity in 401(k) plans presents valuation, liquidity, and fee challenges, requiring careful evaluation, says expert Carol Buckmann.
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Lawdragon has once again named Cohen & Buckmann P.C.'s managing and founding partner Sandra W. Cohen and founding partner Carol I. Buckmann to its 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers guide.
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Cohen & Buckmann founding partner Carol I. Buckmann and partner Gretchen Harders will provide guidance to fiduciaries who manage ERISA-covered plans and their legal advisers in an Oct. 8 webinar for the American Bar Association’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits.
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After a federal court ruled that the proposed non-compete ban should not go into effect, employers are no longer facing a September 4 deadline for action. But that does not mean they should go back to business as usual in employment practices.
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The 2025 Best Lawyers rankings include five Cohen & Buckmann attorneys, recognized for their work in Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law in New York.
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We are proud to have been a part of Worldwide Employee Benefits Network (WEB) celebration on the monumental 50th anniversary of ERISA! From its enactment in 1974 to the recent key provisions of SECURE 2.0 signed into law in 2022, employee benefits law has been on a transformative journey.
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A series of lawsuits have challenged how plan sponsors have used plan forfeitures to reduce employer contributions. In this interview, Carol Buckmann discusses the issues
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Join executive compensation lawyer Sandra Cohen, Cohen & Buckmann, P.C., and employment counsel and litigator Kim Michael, of Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP to discuss various executive severance scenarios including what’s negotiable and what’s not; equity compensation termination issues; severance and key questions for Section 409A compliance.
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The Department of Labor found many violations in retirement plan audits last year, likely because plan sponsors were not regularly self-auditing plan operations.
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The FTC finalized its rule banning most non-compete contracts nationwide. This is expected to draw immediate litigation.
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Carol Buckmann was quoted in this Bloomberg Law article analyzing the Texas federal district court decision in Spence v. American Airlines, Inc. and American Airlines Employee Benefits Committee refusing to dismiss the case. She discussed defects in the case that would most likely have resulted in dismissal of this politically-motivated lawsuit in another court.
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Cohen & Buckmann Expands, Welcomes Gretchen Harders from Epstein Becker & Green
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