John W. Brill (Jack)
Partner
jbrill@hselaw.com
tel: 716.844.3742
fax: 716.853.1617
As a member of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group, Jack’s practice includes:
- Assisting clients in ensuring group health plan compliance with the requirements of HIPAA.
- Advising clients on welfare plan compliance issues, including working with clients to implement health care reform.
- Advising trustees of Taft‐Hartley plans regarding welfare plan operation and design.
- Preparing plan documents, summary plan descriptions, and other benefit communications for qualified plans and welfare plans.
- Preparing amendments to qualified plans.
- Preparing and submitting applications to the IRS for determination of qualified plan status.
- Assisting clients regarding compliance with prohibited transactions rules, fiduciary duties, and other Title I compliance issues.
- Assisting clients in making remedial corrections under the IRS and the U.S. Department of Laborʹs voluntary compliance programs.
- Advising clients regarding benefits governance issues.
Professional & Civic Affiliations
- Member, University of Notre Dame Alumni Club of Western New York
Honors & Awards
- Selected to the Upstate New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars list, 2018-2020
- Notre Dame Law Review, University of Notre Dame, 2007-2009
Publications
- Contributing Author, Self-Insured Health Plans Manual, Employee Benefits Institute of America
- “Giving HIPAA Enforcement Room to Grow: Why There Should Not (Yet) Be a Private Cause of Action,” Note, 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 2105, 2008
Presentations
- Presenter, “Important Considerations and ‘Must-Dos’ for your Employee Benefit Plans in Light of COVID-19,” Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Webinar, April 13, 2020
- Presenter, “Guidance for Employers on Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic - Session Four,” Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Webinar, April 2, 2020
- Presenter, “Helping Businesses Navigate COVID-19 Legislation Webinar,” Brown & Brown Insurance Webinar, April 2, 2020
- Presenter, “Health and Welfare Plan Pitfalls (Other Than the ACA)," Harter Secrest & Emery’s Labor and Employment Law Conference, April 26, 2018
- Presenter, “What Exactly is Something Terrific? The Repeal and Replacement of the ACA,” Harter Secrest & Emery’s Labor and Employment Law Conference, April 5, 2017
Admissions
- New York
Education
- University of Notre Dame, J.D., magna cum laude
- University of Notre Dame, B.A., magna cum laude