Qualified Plans:

 

"Client Alert: Increased FICA Employment and Self-Employment Taxes and their Impact on Retirement Plans," April 16, 2010.


"Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System," Florida West Coast Employee Benefits Council Annual Education Workshop, April 2010.


"Officers' Exposures Under Company Retirement Plans," Corporate Practice Group (February 2009).


"Section 403(b) Plans for Tax-Exempt Employers: The Collective Bargaining Dilemma," The Bureau of National Affairs Tax Management Insights, May 2008.
 
"Cash Balance Conversions and Other 'Greater of' Formulas," The Bureau of National Affairs Tax Management Insights, April 2008.

 

"Plan Qualification: Pension and Profit Sharing Plans," Tax Management Inc. Portfolio, 2008.


Executive Compensation:

 

"Client Alert: The Evolving Texas Law of Non-Compete Agreements," July, 2011.


"Client Alert: Executive Compensation Provisions of the Financial Reform Bill," June 30, 2010.

 

"409A Handbook," "Collectively Bargained Plans," The Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.


"Obama Administration Outlines Executive Compensation Guidelines and Legislative Initiatives," Bloomberg Law Reports- Executive Compensation, Vol. 2, No. 7 (July 2009).


"Current Trends in Executive Compensation," Institute of Management Accountants, Dallas Chapter (May 2009).


"Client Alert: Traps for the Unwary in Drafting ADEA Releases," January 25, 2010.

 

"Client Alert: Executive Compensation - Best Practices in Today's Business and Regulatory Climate," January 31, 2010.


"Reviewing Executive Employment Agreements:  The Impact of Section 409A," Bloomberg Finance, L.P. 2009. Reprinted by permission.


"Coping with the New Deferred Compensation Rules," Dallas Chapter of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists (2008).


"What Every Labor and Employment Attorney Should Know about the New Deferred Compensation Rules," Dallas Bar Association Labor and Employment Section (2007).


"Negotiating and Drafting Employment Agreements," Inside the Minds, Aspatore Books, June 2008.


"Client Alert: New SEC Compensation Disclosure Rules," December 19, 2009.

 

"The Evolving Role of the Compensation Committee," Women's Boardroom Connection, November 2009.


Health Care Reform and Other Welfare Plan Developments:

 

"Client Alert: State Law Conformity - Taxation of Employer-paid Health Coverage of Employees' Dependents to Age 26," April 20, 2011

 

"Client Alert: Employer Mandates Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," December 1, 2010.

 

"Client Alert: Grandfathered Health Plans," July 8, 2010.

 

"What Every Advisor Needs to Know about Healthcare Reform," Southern Federal Tax Institute, April 2010.


"Recent Retirement and Welfare Plan Developments," Florida West Coast Employee Benefits Council Annual Education Workshop, April 2010. 


"HIPAA Preexisting Condition and Mental Health Parity sections of the "Report of the Subcommittee on Welfare Plan's Technical and Statutory Compliance," ABA Employee Benefits Subcommittee Mid Winter Meeting, February 2009.