Haley M. Dow focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation matters. She reviews qualified retirement plans, cafeteria and welfare plans, and executive compensation and employment agreements to ensure conformity with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), Section 409A, the Affordable Care Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
Haley assists clients in drafting employee benefit plan documents and amendments, including 401(k), 403(b), pension, executive compensation, and cafeteria and welfare plans. She also assists with various benefits issues relating to plan qualification, ERISA administrative claims and appeals, and ERISA implications in corporate transactions.
While in law school, Haley served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Mary K. Rochford of the First District Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth Division. She was also staff editor of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy.
- The Chicago Bar Foundation, Young Professionals Board, member
- Notre Dame Law School, JD, cum laude
- University of Michigan, BA, with distinction and high honors
- Illinois
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Client alert / September 30, 2026
Global equity plan reporting obligations for calendar-year 2026
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Client alert / September 2, 2026
DOL proposes new electronic delivery safe harbor for group health plan disclosures
Client alert / September 30, 2026
Global equity plan reporting obligations for calendar-year 2026
Article / September 15, 2025
AI in employer-sponsored group health plans: Legal, ethical, and fiduciary considerations
Article / January 23, 2024
New Rules Make Tracking Long-Term, Part-Time Employee Service a Full-Time Job
Article / January 23, 2024
This Is Not a Test! IRS Confirms Long-Term, Part-Time Employees Excludible From ...
Article / January 23, 2024
When It Comes to Vesting, IRS Says Once a Long-Term, Part-Time Employee, ...
Coverage / September 2, 2026
Sarah Raaii, Jayda Greco, and Haley Dow author PLANSPONSOR article on GLP-1 ...
Deal announcement / July 29, 2026
McDermott Will & Schulte advises Mill Point Capital and GlacierPoint Enterprises on ...
Deal announcement / May 14, 2026
McDermott Will & Schulte advises Lorient Capital on investment in PeterMD
Coverage / April 12, 2024
Deal announcement / April 3, 2024
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