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Part of Labor & Employment Law

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Retirement plans, health plans and pay arrangements.

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What this area covers

Benefits lawyers design and maintain retirement and health plans and advise on executive pay, working at the junction of employment, tax and fiduciary law.

Also called: ERISA, Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation.

Typical legal work

  • Designing retirement and health plans
  • Advising plan fiduciaries
  • Structuring executive compensation

Where lawyers work

  • Law firms of every size
  • In-house legal departments
  • Federal, state and local government

A setting is where you work; an area is what the work is about. The same area is practised in very different settings.

Schools with verified programs

A school is listed here only when its own website names a concentration, certificate, clinic, center or field placement in Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation. Schools are in alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking, and a school that is absent may still teach the subject.

2 schools · 2 certificates

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Program types counted as evidence: clinics, certificates, concentrations and specializations, centers and institutes, externships and field placements. Joint degrees and advanced degrees are described under Degrees & program types.

Sources

These references informed what the area covers. The description above is PreLaw Advisor’s own and does not reproduce their text.

  1. 1.American Bar Association. Section of Labor and Employment Law (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.
  2. 2.American Bar Association. Section of Taxation (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.

Description reviewed Sep 2026. Each school program links to the page it was verified against.