Sherwin S. Kaplan

Of Counsel - Nixon Peabody LLP

Sherwin S. Kaplan is a 23-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Labor, having worked in Washington, D.C., in both the Office of the Solicitor and the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration before entering private practice. Before leaving the department, as deputy associate solicitor in the Plan Benefits Security Division, Kaplan had litigation, enforcement, and regulatory responsibility for ERISA-covered pension and health plans throughout the country. He is a frequent speaker on ERISA subjects at bar association meetings, educational seminars, and training programs and is often quoted in national employee benefit plan journals and magazines. Kaplan has been in private practice since 2000 and currently represents ERISA-covered employee benefit plans, plan sponsors, and service providers (including independent and directed trustees), and advises them with respect to ERISA compliance and fiduciary matters including how to avoid or resolve litigation. He also represents plans, their fiduciaries, and their service providers before governmental agencies (including the Department of Labor) and in federal district court litigation. Kaplan is a charter fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel; he is also a member and former co-chair of the Bloomberg BNA Pension & Benefits Publications Advisory Board. He received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. Kaplan has authored reports in Bloomberg BNA's Benefits Practice Resource Center as part of the Benefits Practitioners’ Strategy Guide: "Department of Labor Actions Against Plan Sponsors" and "Department of Labor ERISA Investigations."

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