ONLINE COURSE IN SPRING 2019!

Employee Benefits (Synchronous Online)
Course 371
3-hour elective course
With employee benefits issues, laws, and regulations changing so rapidly and at the forefront of the news, business and legal worlds, employee benefits law has become one of the fastest growing and most critical areas of the law today. Employee benefits issues affect not just traditional “pension” lawyers but also affect the practices of many practicing lawyers, including the corporate lawyer, the domestic relations lawyer, the litigation lawyer, the estate planning lawyer and the general practitioner. This course will provide an introduction to ERISA-governed employee benefit plans (including the impact of the Affordable Care Act on such plans), welfare benefit plans, and executive compensation plans. It will be an applied problem method of instruction with emphasis on questions, issues, and problems involving employee benefit plans likely to arise in a general litigation or business transaction practice.

This course is offered as a synchronous online course, which means that classes will occur at a set day and time with the professor and the students participating together in real time. The classes will be conducted through a virtual classroom platform. To participate in the class, students will need a computer, a webcam, and a microphone. The class will have a final exam. The final exam will be conducted on a set day and time (per the Exam Schedule) at the law school.