New York – 919 Third Avenue
Concentrates on the litigation of employee benefits, partnership cases, disputes involving hedge and private equity funds, employment disputes between employers and key employees, and restrictive covenant cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States.
Ron defends employee benefit plans, fiduciaries and employers in class actions and in cases brought by individual plaintiffs. He also represents employers, employee benefit plans, fiduciaries and investment managers before the US Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service in connection with novel issues of law concerning plan mergers, terminations, spinoffs, fiduciary duties and prohibited transactions, and various aspects of withdrawal liability and mass withdrawal liability.
He has litigated, arbitrated and advised on several hundred withdrawal liability matters for multiemployer pension funds and employers. He has been very active in advising and representing employers and multiemployer pension plans in connection with the pension provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act.
Ron has litigated and advised on numerous restrictive covenant cases involving trade secrets, non-competition, nonsolicit, and breach of confidentiality and breach of loyalty issues. He has extensive experience in complex litigation, including class actions and disputes involving numerous parties.
- Chambers USA
- Benchmark Litigation
- Best Lawyers in America, Litigation – Labor and Employment, 2026
- New York Super Lawyers
- Lawyers Alliance for New York – 15-Year Circle Honoree
- CPR Employment Dispute Committee, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution
- Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
- Board of Directors, Lawyers Alliance for New York (former)
- Columbia Law School, JD, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Emil Schlesinger Labor Law Prize
- Cornell University, BS
- New York
- Supreme Court of the United States
- US Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- US District Court, Northern District of New York
- US District Court, Southern District of New York
- US District Court, Eastern District of New York
- US District Court, Western District of New York
- US District Court, Eastern District of Michigan