
biography
For over 20 years, Mark has practiced law at the highest levels, the large part of which in national and international firms practicing with nationally recognized benefits attorneys who pioneered this area of law following the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”).
Mark’s practice is broad in scope and includes the various issues employers face with respect to the full array of benefits, including:
- Tax-qualified retirement plans – Mark has extensive experience involving complex and simple defined contribution and defined benefit plans, including traditional and hybrid (cash balance and pension equity) plans, that extends to drafting, amending, merging, and terminating plans to assisting clients manage investment risk in 401(k) plans in the face of the fees litigations brought by the plaintiff’s bar alleging violations of ERISA’s fiduciary rules
- Welfare benefit plans – Mark has worked extensively with various welfare plans, including a broad variety of matters that range from self-funded group medical plans to establishing, administering, and winding down funding vehicles such as tax-exempt voluntary employees’ ben...
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Dallas
Credentials
Admissions
Texas
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. in Taxation (with a Certificate in Employee Benefits), 2000
South Texas College of Law, J.D., 1997, cum laude (Top 10%)
Arizona State University, B.A. (Economics), 1990
Prior Law Firm Experience
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Baker Botts LLP