Ronald E. Richman

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Ronald Richman is a partner in the New York office, co-head of the Employment & Employee Benefits Group.  His practice concentrates on the litigation of employment and employee benefits cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States involving trade secrets, noncompetition, no solicit, and breach of confidentiality and breach of loyalty issues.  Ron defends employee benefit plans, fiduciaries, and employers in class actions and in cases brought by individual plaintiffs.  He represents employee benefit plans before the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service in connection with novel issues of law concerning plan mergers, terminations, spin-offs, fiduciary duties and prohibited transactions, and various aspects of withdrawal liability and mass withdrawal liability.  He has litigated, arbitrated or negotiated more than 100 withdrawal liability disputes representing multiemployer pension plans and/or employers.  Ron also represents employers (particularly hedge and private equity funds), employees and partners with respect to executive compensation and partnership issues.  Ron is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and a member of the CPR Employment Dispute Committee of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution.  A former adjunct professor in New York University School of Continuing Education's Certified Employee Benefits Specialist Program, Ron frequently speaks and writes on employee benefit and employment topics of interest to the H.R. community, such as his “Tips on Complying with U.S. Department of Labor Fee Disclosure Rules,” which appeared in Human Resources 2008, Summer Edition and a presentation he gave on “Employment Litigation; Claims Against Employees” at NYU's 16th Annual Employment Law Workshop for Federal Judges. Ron has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America as a leading labor and employment litigation attorney.  He received a B.S. from the Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell University and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the recipient of the Emil Schlesinger Labor Law Prize.
 
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