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Emily
Zimmer counsels clients on a wide range of employee benefit and executive
compensation issues, including issues related to corporate mergers and
acquisitions. She routinely advises on the design, implementation and
administration of qualified and non-qualified retirement plans and welfare
benefit programs, including wellness programs, health care accounts such as
HRAs, Health FSAs and HSAs, adoption reimbursement programs and educational
assistance programs. Emily also provides compliance advice, including with
respect to reporting and disclosure requirements, ACA compliance obligations,
COBRA benefit continuation rights, and HIPAA portability, nondiscrimination,
privacy and security issues.
Emily assists clients across diverse industries with a particular emphasis on
financial services, energy, higher education and health care. Her work with
higher education institutions has included assisting clients with unique issues
presented under the ACA's employer mandate, including with respect to student
employees. Emily also helps clients in the health care industry navigate
complex benefit plan issues arising due to the client's status as both an
employer and a provider, including unique provider/plan contracting and
fiduciary duty issues and HIPAA privacy and security considerations given
HIPAA's impacts
Richard is a partner in the labor and employment practice
and handles a variety of complex commercial litigation matters. He has more
than 35 years of experience in litigation, mediation and arbitration. Richard
handles all types of employment matters, representing management in both union
and nonunion settings. His specialties include trade secret claims;
noncompetition covenants; employee breach of fiduciary duty claims; individual
and class actions involving Title VII sex discrimination, religious
discrimination and race discrimination claims; age discrimination claims;
retaliation claims; Sections 1981 and 1983 civil rights claims; Fair Labor
Standards Act, workplace safety (OSHA), Sarbanes-Oxley and other whistleblower
statutes; and disability discrimination claims. He also represents employers
and employees in the negotiation of employment contracts.
Richard has been recognized in several notable
publications for many years, including The
Best Lawyers in America, Chambers
USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, PLC Cross-Border Handbooks and
Georgia Trend magazine’s Legal Elite.
He serves on the 10-member Advisory Board for the CCH Employment Law Daily.