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Ann Arbor
Tel 734 213 3616
Fax734 995 1777
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Jordan Schreier

Jordan Schreier is a Shareholder in Butzel Long's Ann Arbor, Michigan office and is the Practice Group Leader for the Employee Benefits Practice Group. He represents clients primarily in the area of ERISA, employee benefits and compensation. He is a graduate of The University of Michigan (B.A. with high distinction, 1983; J.D., cum laude, 1987). Mr. Schreier is listed in the Best Lawyers in America (Employee Benefits Law; Labor and Employment Law), Chambers USA (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation), Super Lawyers (Employee Benefits), and DBusiness magazine’s Top Lawyers list.

Mr. Schreier's practice primarily involves advising profit and nonprofit employers on planning and compliance issues involving all aspects of employee benefits, including welfare benefits, qualified retirement and other deferred compensation plans. His experience includes counseling on executive compensation programs, controlled group planning, multiemployer benefits plans, consumer directed health care, ERISA reporting and disclosure issues, prohibited transactions, fiduciary compliance and best practices, flexible benefits, COBRA, FMLA, ADA, HIPAA and other benefits issues. He serves as legal counsel to numerous pension and 401(k) investment and administrative committees.

Experience

Established fiduciary compliance program for qualified retirement plans with 9,000 participants/$600 million in assets; drafted documents on committee members, authority, responsibility and rules and policies for paying expenses from plan assets
Assisted tier one automotive supplier in structuring plant closing benefits for union employees; analyzed legal issues on providing pension accruals post-plant closing and advice on benefit funding, vesting and reporting and disclosure obligations
Restructured 16 retiree health care programs for major manufacturing company into five consolidated programs with reduced benefits and assisted with retiree communication and acceptance program
Designed health risk assessment program that complies with ERISA, HIPAA, ADA, and GINA , integrated with employers wellness programs and incentives and determined if eligibility to participate in health plan could be contingent on completing HRA
Assisted tier one automotive supplier with merging single employer union pension plan into multiemployer national pension fund; negotiated merger agreement and liability and asset transfer terms; provided technical compliance guidance