Employee benefits lawyer will provide update on recent lawsuits at conference
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Willig, Williams & Davidson partner James S. Beall will present during the 71st Annual Employee Benefits Conference, hosted by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. The session, titled “Attorneys: Employee Benefits Fiduciary Litigation Update,” will be presented at 9:15 a.m. HST on Nov. 11, 2025.
Beall will discuss recent trends in fiduciary litigations filed against plans and fiduciaries and how the allegations in these lawsuits can shape the legal advice given to fiduciaries to mitigate the litigation risk. He will address Pharmacy Benefits Manager, excessive fee, pension risk transfer, and forfeiture cases.
A partner at Willig, Williams & Davidson, Beall is known for his skill in representing a wide variety of public and private-sector single and multiemployer funds on comprehensive employee benefit and tax matters. His work focuses on the firm’s joint labor-management pension and welfare fund clients, as well as its labor union clients. He offers counsel and guidance to help ensure that union benefit plans are as well funded and secure as possible. On behalf of these clients, he interacts regularly with the U.S. Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans is a nonprofit membership organization that provides objective and actionable information for those working in the employee benefits industry. They work with plan sponsors representing a wide range of industries to share information and produce education that helps inform decisions impacting the lives of over 25 million workers through the U.S. and Canada.
About Willig, Williams & Davidson – Willig, Williams & Davidson (www.wwdlaw.com) is one of the largest and most respected union-side labor law firms in the United States. The firm has offices in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as well as Haddonfield, New Jersey, and Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1979, Willig, Williams & Davidson focuses on representing labor unions, employee benefit funds and individual working people and their families on a variety of legal fronts, including national, regional and local contract negotiations; election and campaign finance; dispute resolution through mediation, arbitration and litigation; family law matters; benefits law design and compliance issues; discrimination, overtime and unpaid wages, and other employment matters; prepaid legal services for union members; social security disability; and workers’ compensation matters in Philadelphia and beyond. Workers inspire us.
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