Morgan Lewis

Craig A. Bitman Partner

Email: cbitman@morganlewis.com
New York
101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.7190
Fax: 212.309.6001

Craig A. Bitman is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice. Mr. Bitman offers clients a broad range of knowledge and skills on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation law. He routinely advises companies, trust funds, and individuals with respect to matters involving qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, severance plans, employment contracts, welfare benefit plans, equity-based compensation arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, plan investments, and fiduciary issues.

A prolific author, Mr. Bitman frequently writes and lectures on a host of topics affecting benefit plan sponsors and participants. He is a member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and is admitted to practice in New York.

In 1996, Mr. Bitman received his J.D., cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center where he was an editor of The Tax Lawyer. He earned his B.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993.

Mr. Bitman is admitted to practice in New York.

Practice Accolades

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Listed, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (various states) in Chambers USA (2009)

Listed, Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation in The U.S. Legal 500 (2009)


Honors + Affiliations

Listed as Recognized, Employee Benefits and Pensions, PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2010)

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, 1996, J.D.
  • University of Pennsylvania, 1993, B.A.