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Class Action Litigation
Employee Benefits
Enterprise-Owned-and-Managed Enterprise
ERISA and Employment Litigation
Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures
Biography
Susan Katz Hoffman is a shareholder with Littler and the co-chair of the Firm's ERISA group. A fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and a Charter Fellow of the College of Employee Benefits Practitioners, Ms. Hoffman concentrates her practice in the areas of employee benefits litigation, employee benefit plan design and administration and employee benefit issues in corporate transactions. She has represented plan sponsors, prototype plan sponsors, institutional trustees and investment managers, employer associations, multiemployer plan trustees and insurers.
Ms. Hoffman has served on American Bar Association committees and task forces involving merger and acquisition issues, prototype plan design, welfare benefit plan regulation and regulation of plan investments. She has served as chair of the Litigation Subcommittee, the Fiduciary Subcommittee, and the M&A Subcommittee of the ABA's Employee Benefits Committee (Tax Section) and previously served as chair of the ABA's Employee Benefits Committee (Employment Law Section). In addition, she has served as chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Employee Benefits Subcommittee (Labor Law Committee).
Education
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, cum laude, 1974
M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, with distinction, 1974
B.A., Lake Forest College, with honors, 1970
Publications
Ms. Hoffman was a member of the senior editorial board for the original and second editions of Employee Benefits Law, a treatise published by the Labor and Employment Section of the American Bar Association and she writes regularly for various national legal and accounting publications regarding developments in employee benefits tax issues and employee benefits litigation and regulation.
Lectures & Presentations
Ms. Hoffman lectures frequently on subjects relating to benefit plans in mergers and acquisitions, ERISA litigation and multiemployer pension plans. At the invitation of the IRS, she presented a program for IRS National Office Employee Benefits attorneys and plan reviewers on merger and acquisition issues. She has been a speaker at the Legalworks ERISA Litigation seminar on COBRA and disability litigation and special pension litigation issues (including cutback claims and cash balance plans); at the ALI-ABA Advanced Pension program on "Statutory Claims Under ERISA" and "ERISA Enforcement of Executive Compensation Agreements;" at the ABA National Institute on Mergers and Acquisitions on "Collectively Bargained Benefits Plans" and "Negotiating the Acquisition Agreement" and at the ERISA Update sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on "Fiduciary Misrepresentation Claims" and "Ethics Issues for Benefit Lawyers."
Cases/Courts/Judges
Ms. Hoffman is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, and before the U.S. Supreme Court.