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Welcome to Benefitscounsel.com, home to the Law Office of B. Janell Grenier, a law firm dedicated to representing clients in the field of employee benefits and ERISA law.
B. Janell Grenier, its principal, has over 20 years of experience with major law firms counseling clients in all aspects of employee benefits law, including the design, drafting, implementation and administration of qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, flexible compensation programs, welfare benefits plans, and fiduciary law aspects of ERISA. Her clients have included small private start-up companies, family-owned businesses, Fortune 100 companies, as well as tax-exempt and governmental entities.

Ms. Grenier’s principal commitment has been to provide superior service to her clients by employing a unique blend of specialized knowledge and expertise, personalized service, and competitive rates. She is dedicated to serving her clients with honesty, integrity, and excellence.

A principal focus of Ms. Grenier’s practice is to assist corporate directors, executives, plan committee members, management personnel and human resource professionals who serve as ERISA fiduciaries in meeting their fiduciary duties and obligations under ERISA.

Benefits & ERISA News...

New IRS Governmental Plan Compliance Initiative For years, the governmental plans segment of the benefits industry has been plagued with misinformation about the need for governmental plans to comply with the Internal Revenue Code. On April 22 of this year, the IRS hosted a governmental plans...

Advisory Council’s Working Group Issues Its Report on Revenue Sharing ERISA practitioners will want to note this recent DOL posting of the Report on the 2007 ERISA Advisory Council’s Working Group on Fiduciary Responsibilities and Revenue Sharing Practices. While the Report carries a disclaimer that its contents "do not represent...

Economic Stimulus Payments to IRAs/Health Savings Accounts Can Be Withdrawn Taxpayers may be unaware that by choosing the direct deposit option for their 2007 tax refund, they were also choosing to have their Economic Stimulus Payments directly deposited as well. Without IRS relief, taxpayers then might be unable to access...

Report on DOL Audit Activity I have always thought that it would be a great idea if someone could keep track of practitioners' "war stories" about DOL and IRS audit activity in order to keep plan sponsors apprised of developments. Ilene Ferenczy has provided some...