John W. Brill (Jack)

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

NEWS

Press Releases

• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Named to 2020 Upstate New York Super Lawyers, Rising Stars Lists, August 25, 2020
• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Named to 2019 Upstate New York Super Lawyers, Rising Stars Lists, August 14, 2019
• Harter Secrest & Emery Elects John W. Brill and Luke P. Wright Partners, January 1, 2019

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, “Understanding the ARPA and its Impact on COBRA and FFCRA,” Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce, April 22, 2021

• 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