Lawyers / Professionals

Mr. Chambers counsels employers and executives in connection with tax-qualified retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, cash balance/pension equity plans, and ESOPs; executive and incentive compensation programs; employee benefit programs for universities, churches, hospitals, and other tax-exempt organizations; international benefit issues; compensation and employee benefit ramifications of corporate transactions; group insurance and other welfare benefit plans, including COBRA and HIPAA issues; early retirement programs and other group severance arrangements; employment and termination of executives; and ERISA-based litigation.

He has represented national and international firms in the transportation, building materials, distribution, livestock, automotive, mining, pharmaceutical, energy, insurance/financial, and general manufacturing industries. He also has served as counsel to several trade associations. He negotiates the employee benefit aspects of business transactions; has worked with Russian ministries and investment companies to establish a private pension system for Russian workers; and has served as a U.S. delegate to the Pension Working Group of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.

Mr. Chambers is past chairman of the American Benefits Council, the preeminent employee benefits lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., whose members either employ or administer plans for more than 100 million Americans. He is the only practicing lawyer serving on the Executive Committee of this organization. In this leadership role, he analyzes and prepares comments on federal legislation, regulations, and issues regarding retirement plans, health plans, stock-based plans, and international employee benefits plans.