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Pillsbury Duo Edits Supplement to ERISA Fiduciary Law Book
Co-editors: Susan P. Serota, Frederick A. Brodie

8/12/2009
Susan Serota, head of Pillsbury's Executive Compensation & Benefits practice and a member of the firm’s ERISA Litigation team, and Frederick Brodie, leader of the ERISA Litigation team, serve as co-editors of ERISA Fiduciary Law, Second Edition, published by BNA Books, a division of BNA (2006). In August 2009, the 2009 Cumulative Supplement to the treatise was published as an update to the main volume. The 2009 Supplement offers sophisticated analysis of fiduciary issues that have recently arisen under ERISA and the Department of Labor regulations, and assesses their interpretation by the federal courts.

The Supplement reviews and analyzes recent developments in ERISA fiduciary law in the areas of delegation of fiduciary responsibility, fiduciary duties when the plan sponsor is in, or contemplating, bankruptcy, and disclosure of defined contribution plan fees. New to the 2009 supplement is a section on underwriter exemptions. Also highlighted are the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Sereboff, affecting the scope of equitable relief available under ERISA, and LaRue, which impacts standing to pursue fiduciary claims in the context of defined contribution plans.

Pillsbury's ERISA and Executive Compensation & Benefits practices and attorneys are consistently ranked among the best in their fields by Chambers USA. The recent increase in litigation involving corporate employee benefit plans, along with the national focus on executive compensation issues, underscores the need to ensure that employee benefit plans, and the governance of those plans, comply with ERISA, securities laws and tax laws. Members of Pillsbury's ERISA team – which combines the firm’s experience in several practice areas, including Employment & Labor, Securities Litigation and Executive Compensation & Benefits – have both courtroom experience and substantive knowledge in ERISA and regularly advise clients across the U.S. on cases ranging from single-employee executive compensation disputes and benefit denials to complex class actions and fiduciary litigation.