Baker Botts employee benefits and executive compensation team is excellent. They stay up to date on trends, provide practical advice, and are extremely knowledgeable."
The Legal 500 U.S. 2025
Our Pension, Benefits, and ERISA Litigation group pairs the firm’s in-depth understanding of employee benefits and executive compensation matters with its seasoned trial lawyers. We have broad experience in litigation of complex employee benefits matters involving both ERISA and non-ERISA plans, including government-sponsored plans and foreign law governed plans of employers with multi-national workforces, and disputes arising out of executive employment, change in control and severance arrangements. Recently, we have also represented employers before the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) related to healthcare plan issues. We focus on representation of employers, executives and plan fiduciaries of both funded and unfunded plans, including members of boards of directors, employees serving or acting at the direction of employers, administrative committees, investment committees, trustees and third-party administrators in the full range of complex benefits related litigation.
The firm’s lawyers have represented clients in single-plaintiff, multi-plaintiff and class action matters in a wide range of claim categories, including:
