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BB&K Attorneys to Discuss Significant 2021 Legal Changes in Complimentary Webinar
Best Best & Krieger LLP attorneys bring years of experience working with board members, management, staff and bargaining group representatives to derive solutions to the pension benefits challenges public agencies face. Serving as employee benefits and retirement counsel to a wide variety of public agency clients, including joint powers authorities, counties, cities, special districts and school districts, we advise on the design and administration of employee and retiree benefit programs and related issues.
Our firm is at the forefront in advising on public agency obligations under California’s vested rights doctrine and the interplay with state, regional or local statutes establishing those benefits. We have led the way in evaluating pension obligations under various pension systems, including statewide, regional and stand-alone systems, and the modifications of their pension obligations. We also work on proposals that include creation of multiple-tiered benefit arrangements for new employees, cost-sharing arrangements, increased employee contributions, and adoption of defined contribution plans as an alternative to the defined benefit option.
BB&K lawyers regularly help public agency clients navigate the complex legal issues involving pension benefits, including:
Through representing numerous public agency clients that have one or more collective bargaining groups, we have become skilled at identifying options to achieve pension goals and ensuring proposals are both legally permissible and acceptable to bargaining representatives.
Our attorneys are among the leading authorities on California’s pension reform bill, AB 340 (2012), and bring a wealth of experience in the laws and legal principles that directly impact the pension benefits that public agencies maintain, including:
BB&K lawyers possess the necessary intimate familiarity with the body of California law that has defined the parameters of the vested rights doctrine and a clear understanding of whether and when the constraints of the vested rights doctrine apply. We also have significant experience with ERISA, including the provisions that apply to the pension plans of public agency clients, and with the state laws that apply to state, regional and local pension systems, including applicable provisions of the California Constitution, the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act, the Public Employees Retirement Law, the County Employees’ Retirement Law of 1937, and the laws applicable to municipal and special district pension plans.
BB&K Attorneys to Discuss Significant 2021 Legal Changes in Complimentary Webinar
BB&K Attorneys to Discuss Significant 2021 Legal Changes in Complimentary Webinar
SB 278 Imposes Increased Statutory Liability for CalPERS Reporting Errors
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AB 340 Modifications to CERL Are Permissible Under the California Rule
Former CalPERS Compensation Compliance and Audit Review Manager
Contract Workers May Still Be Reclassified as Employees by CalPERS
Option to Purchase Airtime is Not a Vested Right
SB 1124 Would Have Imposed Statutory Liability for Errors in CalPERS Reporting
Isabel Safie Provides Insight Into Lawsuits That May Have Significant Implications for Public Agencies Facing High Pension Costs in PublicCEO
Daily Journal Releases Annual List of 75
Cases Before State’s High Court Could Mean Big Changes for Retirement Benefits Writes Jeffrey Chang in PublicCEO
The Bill is Due: Now What? Infrastructure, Pensions and the Environment
The Bill is Due: Now What? Infrastructure, Pensions and the Environment
The Bill is Due: Now What? Infrastructure, Pensions and the Environment
The Bill is Due: Now What? Infrastructure, Pensions and the Environment
The Bill is Due: Now What? Infrastructure, Pensions and the Environment
The Bill is Due: Now What? Infrastructure, Pensions and the Environment
BB&K Represented Town in Negotiations
By Isabel C. Safie
BB&K Partner Isabel Safie Helped Two Public Agencies Overcome Problems
Additions Expand Services for Public Agency Employers
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