In today’s competitive and global marketplace, employee benefits play a big role in attracting and retaining quality employees. The Law Office of B. Janell Grenier is dedicated to helping clients create strategies and solutions that enable them to deal successfully with the complex and challenging legal requirements governing benefits and ERISA.
Ms. Grenier is motivated by a conscientious desire to help her clients succeed and to make the complex laws of benefits and ERISA work for them. In doing so, she is guided by the following philosophy:
- to maintain the highest level of professional ethics, honesty and integrity;
- to provide practical solutions and timely advice;
- to provide excellence in service and a superior level of expertise and proficiency in the employee benefits field;
- to develop a keen understanding of her client’s needs and concerns;
- to employ leading-edge technology in practice management to achieve optimal efficiency and value in her practice.
Ms. Grenier offers a wide-range of services to help you structure and manage all types of employee benefit plans, including defined contribution, 401(k), defined benefit, cash balance, employee stock ownership, 401(k), individual retirement arrangements, simplified employee pensions, voluntary employees’ beneficiary associations, non-qualified deferred compensation, welfare benefit, cafeteria, and governmental plans. Ms. Grenier is available to provide the following services:
- Employee benefit plan selection process
- Initial document preparation
- Restatements to comply with changes in the law
- Qualification of plans with the IRS
- Employee communications, including preparation of SPDs
- IRS and Department of Labor audits and self-audits
- Submission of Plans to IRS and DOL voluntary compliance programs
- ERISA Fiduciary compliance
- Prohibited transaction rules and exemptions
- Plan spin-offs and mergers
- Terminations and partial terminations
- Reporting and disclosure requirements
- Participant and beneficiary claims and appeals of claims
- QDROs
- Loans to Participants
- Litigation advice
- Advising Boards of Directors regarding ERISA fiduciary issues
- Advising Plan Committees and ERISA Fiduciaries
- Detailed legal compliance reviews of retirement plan operations and administration
Understanding that benefits law, the economy, and an organization’s own competitive position are constantly evolving, Ms. Grenier regularly updates clients regarding recent developments in the law as well as current thinking on various issues.
Ms. Grenier offers reasonable rates and seeks to respond to client needs in a timely and cost-effective manner.