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As a member of the Compensation and Employee Benefits practice group, Bruce McNeil brings 20 years of substantial experience in the areas of executive compensation and employee benefits. He currently represents employers in designing, drafting and implementing qualified retirement plans (including profit sharing, 401(k), money purchase pension and defined benefit plans), nonqualified deferred compensation and executive compensation arrangements. He also advises on health and welfare benefits programs and representing fiduciaries in ERISA litigation matters.
Bruce is a nationally recognized leader in the field of employee benefits and executive compensation. He testified before the U.S. Senate Committee of Finance on executive compensation and employee benefit practices of Enron Corporation. Throughout his legal career, he has authored more than 25 published books, including the Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans treatise published by Thomson/West, and has authored more than 75 employee benefits articles that have been published in several professional journals. Bruce has been selected to be inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. He frequently speaks at national forums and seminars across the country and is currently editor in chief for the Journal of Pension Planning & Compliance and the Journal of Deferred Compensation, national publications published quarterly by Aspen Publishers. In addition, Bruce has been named among The Best Lawers in America in the area of employee benefits law.
Prior to joining Leonard, Street and Deinard, Bruce was employed with the Employee Plans, Technical and Actuarial Division of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C. He previously was a partner in the Minneapolis office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP and a partner with Doherty Rumble and Butler.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
Member, U.S. Supreme Court
Member, U.S. Tax Court
Member, District of Columbia, Court of Appeals
Member, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Adjunct professor, University of Minnesota Law School
EDUCATION
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, 1983
J.D., Drake University Law School, 1982
M.A., English, Georgetown University, 1987
ADMISSIONS
State of Minnesota
District of Columbia
State of Connecticut
State of Iowa
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