Christine Phyllis Roberts

My goal is to help employers use the powerful tool of employment-sponsored benefits to attract and retain quality employees. Towards that end, I assist employers with all types of benefit plans problems, including taking retirement plans through IRS and DOL voluntary compliance programs, dealing with the intricacies of health care reform, and advising brokers and administrators on their duties under HITECH data breach and health privacy rules. I also perform ERISA due diligence work.

I work within a full-service, defense-side employment and labor law department and although my practice primarily involves employment benefit plan issues I also can draft and advise re: employment agreements, termination agreements, and employee handbooks. I frequently help for-profit and not-for-profit employers establish executive nonqualified deferred compensation plans under Internal Revenue Code Section 409A, and advise on how those rules can impact employment and separation agreements.