White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Richard C. Libert

Practice Experience

Richard C. Libert is a member of the Firm's global Executive Compensation, Benefits and Employment Law Practice Group, specializing and advising clients on a wide array of compliance-related issues with respect to tax-qualified employee pension benefit plans and employee welfare benefit plans, along with related ERISA and tax issues. He also serves as Secretary to the Firm's Pension, Savings and Welfare Plans Committee.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 1992
US District Court for the Southern and Eastern Federal Districts of New York and Federal District of New Jersey, 1994
New Jersey State Bar, 1994

Education
JD, Western New England College School of Law, 1991
Certificate of Completion, The Institute for Employee Benefits Training, 1986
BA, Indiana University, 1986

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association
New York County Lawyers' Association

Publications
Special Consultant to BNA Tax Management with respect to Portfolio 360 2nd "Qualified Plans – IRS Determination Letter Procedures," April 2003
Co-author, "Conversions and/or Mergers of Money Purchase Pension Plans into Profit-Sharing Plans," Profit Sharing, January/February 2003
Co-author, "Retirement-Plan Administrators Must Manage 'Blackout Periods' Carefully," Los Angeles Daily Journal, April 2002
Co-author, "Blackout Periods in a Post-Enron World," Profit Sharing, March/April 2002
Co-author, "What Should You Do When You Receive a QDRO?" The Journal of Compensation and Benefits, July/August 2001
Co-author, "The Risks of Not Having a Health and Welfare Plan Document," HR Advisor Legal & Practical Guidance, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, November/December 1999
Lecturer, The New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education: "ERISA and 401(k)s for General Practitioners," November 1998

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States