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Education

  • Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1994
    Editor, Student Articles, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
  • Loyola University Chicago, B.S., summa cum laude, 1989

Admissions

  • Illinois

Courts

  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Teaching Credits


  • Adjunct Professor, Graduate Employee Benefits Law Program, John Marshall Law School, 2002

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Michael F. Tomasek

Michael Tomasek assists clients in the development of all types of employee benefit plans and other arrangements including employment, consulting, buy-sell and severance agreements. He assists clients in employee benefit matters that arise during corporate mergers and acquisitions. Mike also counsels clients in the resolution of complex legal issues relating to employee benefit plans and matters where employment laws and employee benefit issues overlap. He regularly represents clients with vendor contract negotiations and disputes.

Some of the matters in which Mike has assisted clients include the following substantive areas:

  • Tax treatment
  • ERISA reporting and disclosure rules
  • Multi-employer plan withdrawal liability
  • Prohibited transaction issues
  • Disability benefit disputes
  • ERISA litigation
  • ERISA fiduciary rules
  • Medicare
  • Retirement plan qualification rules
  • Non-qualified deferred compensation rules
  • Executive compensation and benefits
  • Health and welfare benefit funding matters
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
  • Mental Health Parity requirements
  • Newborns’ and Mothers’ Health Protection Act
  • Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act
  • Cafeteria Plan Rules
  • COBRA
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Family and Medical Leave Act
  • Statutes and regulations relating to veterans’ reemployment rights

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Illinois Bar Journal

This article will set forth courts’ views of whether plant shutdown benefits are retirement type subsidies, discuss the view of the IRS, look at the relevant legislative history, and then argue that Congress likely intended to protect plant shutdown benefits of the type described above.

Distinctions

  • Chair, Chicago Bar Association Employee Benefits Committee, 2001

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • Chicago Bar Association
  • Illinois State Bar Association