Practice Areas
- Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
- Defined Benefit and Cash Balance Plans
- Defined Contribution Plans and 401(k) Plans
- Executive and Equity Compensation; Deferred/Non-Qualified Compensation Plans
- Fiduciary and DOL Matters
- Multiemployer Plans
- Tax-Exempt and Governmental Employers
- Transactional Matters
- Health & Welfare Plans
- HIPAA Compliance and Healthcare Privacy Issues
- Life Sciences
Honors + Affiliations
Former Chair, Philadelphia Bar Association, Pension Committee; American Bar Association, Health Law Section, Employee Benefits Interest Group
Member, American Bar Association, Tax Section, Employee Benefits Committee
Charter Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2005–2008)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (1999–2009)
Listed, Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in American Law
Listed, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers (2004–2008)
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- Philadelphia
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1701 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921
Phone: 215.963.4811
Fax: 215.963.5001
Robert L. Abramowitz is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice. His practice involves counseling clients in all aspects of employee benefits law, including fiduciary law aspects of ERISA, qualified pension and profit-sharing plans, executive compensation, flexible compensation programs, welfare benefit plans, retiree health plans, ERISA concerns of investment advisers, and managed health care.
A frequent author and speaker, Mr. Abramowitz was a Lecturer in Law in Villanova University Law School's Graduate Tax Program from 1986 to 2001 and has had numerous articles published.
Mr. Abramowitz is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Education
- Harvard Law School, 1974, J.D.
- Yale University, 1971, B.A.