About
Joan A. Disler is a Member of the Firm and Chair of the Employee Benefits Practice. She directs a national practice that provides strategic and practical counsel to the firm's clients on complicated issues relating to employee benefits. Joan’s practice focuses on all aspects of employee benefits law, including pension and welfare plans under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code. She counsels a broad range of clients on employee benefit issues, with respect to mergers and acquisitions, qualified and non-qualified plans, deferred compensation and executive bonus plans, plan and trust documents, administrative services agreements, and plan terminations and reversions. Click here for Joan's full biography.
Frances M. Green is a Member of the Firm in the Labor and Employment practice in the firm's New York office, and is co-head of the firm's nationwide Women's Initiative. Fran's experience includes advising management of multinational and domestic corporations on all aspects of employment law, and litigating on behalf of multinational corporations in federal and state courts and before the New York and various regional securities exchanges in all aspects of employment related litigation, including employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful discharge. She also lectures frequently to corporate executives throughout the United States and overseas. Click here for Fran's full biography.
Wendy G. Marcari is a Member of the Firm in the Corporate Services and Health Care and Life Sciences practices, in the firm's New York office. As a member of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Group, Ms. Marcari advises clients on creditors' rights, bankruptcy, and business reorganization matters throughout the country, with a particular emphasis on complex Chapter 11 reorganization proceedings. She represents debtors, vendors, lenders, landlords, employees, trustees, and other interested parties in bankruptcy and restructuring matters, corporate wind-downs, and bankruptcy-related litigation in a wide variety of industries. She also counsels health care clients regarding insolvency issues, creditors' rights, and sale transactions within bankruptcy proceedings. Click here for Wendy's full biography.
Margaret C. Thering is an Associate in the Labor and Employment practice, in the firm's New York office. Ms. Thering represents clients in labor and employment-related litigation on a broad array of matters, such as discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, and restrictive covenant disputes. She also provides advice to employers on labor and employment law matters, including reductions in force, employee discipline, termination of employment, compliance with leave and other employment laws, furloughs, internships, and responses to claims for unemployment benefits. Click here for Meg's full biography.
