The outsourcing of retirement plan recordkeeping and other administrative responsibilities has increased in recent years for both defined contribution and defined benefit plans.
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Recent decisions by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit have reinvigorated the debate over whether mandatory individual arbitration provisions are enforceable with respect to ERISA claims and, if so, whether these provisions are worth including in your ERISA plan document.
Our ERISA litigation chairs, Jeremy Blumenfeld, Debbie Davidson, and Brian Ortelere, recently chatted with Law360 about how Morgan Lewis is handling some of the hottest areas in ERISA litigation, including retirement plan management for universities and the trend of workers' savings being steered toward proprietary investment funds.