PAUL A. GREEN
Senior Counsel
For more than thirty years, Paul Green has
represented multiemployer pension and welfare plans, union staff
plans, labor management cooperation trusts, and labor
organizations. Mr. Green is a recognized expert in the field of
ERISA and employee benefits, and leads the employee benefits
practice at the Firm. Mr. Green also serves as the General Counsel
of the National
Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans (NCCMP). In
addition to his experience in all aspects of plan creation and
operation, Mr. Green has assisted his clients in their legislative
and regulatory efforts, both at the federal and state levels, and
has been instrumental in the passage of significant legislation.
Prior to joining the Firm as a founding partner, Mr. Green led the
employee benefits practice at the former Beins, Axelrod, Osborne,
Mooney & Green, P.C. Mr. Green originally gained his ERISA
expertise as an attorney with the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation, after serving as a clerk for the Hon. Rita C.
Davidson on the Court of Appeals of Maryland (subsequently renamed
the Supreme Court of Maryland).
In addition to his practice of law, Mr. Green is a member of the Maryland
Small Business Retirement Savings Board, which is
responsible for designing and administering the state's automatic
IRA savings program for Maryland workers who have no other
retirement savings alternatives through their work. Mr. Green
chairs its Program Design and Consumer Protection Committee, after
having served on the legislative commission that helped to craft
its enabling legislation.
Mr. Green also spent years teaching law as an adjunct professor in
the field of employee benefits at the Columbus School of Law,
Catholic University of America. Mr. Green lectures on a regular
basis for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans,
the NCCMP, and other organizations. Mr. Green has conducted
multiple sessions on matters related to the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, bankruptcy, reporting and disclosure, benefit
plan collections, domestic partner benefits, multiemployer section
401(k) and annuity plans, plan arbitration and dispute resolution,
understanding investment management fees, and more.
Mr. Green has authored a number of significant publications in his
field of practice, most recently as co-author with Lauren
McDermott of "I
Can Get it For You Wholesale: Discount Rates and Withdrawal
Liability", Benefits Law Journal (Wolters Kluwer),
Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter 2020). Mr. Green's publications also
include "Healthcare Basics for Union-Side Labor Lawyers," LCC
Annual Conference, 2017; "Hot Topics in Pension and Health
Benefits," LCC Annual Conference, 2017; "The Privilege Challenge", Benefits Magazine
(International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans), April 2016;
"Getting Out
of the Weeds: Medical Marijuana and the Workplace," Benefits
Magazine (International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans),
October 2015, pp. 16-19 (Co-Author); "Bankruptcy Basics," Benefits Magazine, May
2014 (web exclusive) (International Foundation of Employee Benefit
Plans); "Fiduciary Obligation in Collections," Employee Benefit
Issues, The Multiemployer Perspective (International Foundation of
Employee Benefit Plans), pp. 169-178 (2002); "Investment
Management Fees - Soft Dollars," Employee Benefit Issues, The
Multiemployer Perspective (International Foundation of Employee
Benefit Plans), pp. 34-44 (2002); "401(k) and Self-Directed
Annuity Plans," Employee Benefit Issues, The Multiemployer
Perspective (International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans),
pp. 318 - 326 (2000); "Self-Pay Revisited - New Legal
Requirements" (Digest, International Foundation of Employee
Benefit Plans, Vol. 23, No. 6), pp. 7 et seq. (1986); "The
Single-Employer Pension Plan Amendments of 1986: An Overview"
(Spencer & Associates 1986) (Co-Author); and "Pension-Related
Claims in Bankruptcy," Pension Briefings (Federal Publications
Inc.), No. 87-7 (July 1987) (Co-Author).
Mr. Green earned his bachelor's degree in political science from
the University of Chicago, also fulfilling the requirements for a
degree in economics. Mr. Green earned his J.D., with honors, from
the University of Maryland School of Law, where he was
distinguished as Order of the Coif.
|
1920 L Street, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 783-0010
(202) 783-6088 (fax)
Email | Download
vCard
Admissions:
»Maryland
»District of Columbia
»Virginia
»U.S. Supreme Court
»Various U.S. Courts of Appeal, District Courts, and
Bankruptcy Courts.
|