Overview
Will joined Laner Muchin in 2006. He is an attorney in the Firm’s Employee Benefits Department where he counsels clients on withdrawal liability, mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits litigation, and fiduciary responsibility issues under ERISA. He also works with corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, multiemployer plans and tax-exempt entities and organizations. He advises clients on a variety of retirement plan and other employee benefit plan matters, including the design, amendment, administration and termination of pension, profit sharing, 401(k), employee stock ownership and welfare benefit plans and trusts. He has represented clients before the IRS, Department of Labor and District Courts across the country.
Will has been an adjunct professor at The John Marshall School of Law since 2002 and teaches courses on ERISA fiduciary obligations, ERISA fundamentals and ERISA in mergers and acquisitions.
Will has also authored many articles on withdrawal liability, the most recent of which have appeared in recent volumes of Exhibit City News.
HONORS, MEMBERSHIPS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Rotarian of the Year Award, 2012
- USD Litigation Clinic Award, 1994
- CALI Award for Excellence in Legal Writing, 1999
- Chicago Pro Bono Award, 2004
- Co-Author, "Uses of Mandatory Arbitration Provisions to Recoup Money owed to ERISA Plans," ERISA Compliance & Enforcement Library BNA; (2006, last revised 2017)
- Co-Author, Retiree Health Benefits chapter in ERISA Litigation, BNA (2003)
Practice Areas
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., 1999
University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., 1994
Northwestern University, B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1990
Admissions
- Illinois
- Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
