Practice Accolades
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)
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New York
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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.
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, 1996, J.D.
- University of Pennsylvania, 1993, B.A.