Michael I. Richardson joined
the firm as a partner in 1994. He specializes in employee
benefits and employment law. Mr. Richardson has substantial
experience in employee benefit plan matters, including qualification,
administration and design of defined benefit and defined contribution
pension plans, tax sheltered annuities, flexible benefit plans,
medical, disability and other welfare plans and in the litigation
of individual and class action benefit claims. Mr. Richardson
represents employers with respect to all aspects of multi-employer
Taft-Hartley Plans. He also counsels employers on traditional
union-management relations, with substantial experience representing
employers in collective bargaining, union-management relations
and union organizing campaigns. He also advises clients on
employment discrimination, wage and hour, wrongful discharge
and related matters.
Prior to joining Franczek Sullivan P.C., Mr. Richardson practiced
at the law firm of Vedder Price Kaufman Kammholz (1987-1994),
and twice served as interim in-house benefits counsel (1992-1993)
for a Fortune 100 multi-national family of companies. Mr.
Richardson graduated magna cum laude in 1987 from
the University of Notre Dame School of Law, where he was editor
of the Notre Dame Law Review (1985-1987). He graduated
from Loyola University of Chicago with a masters degree in
industrial relations (1985) and received a bachelor of arts
degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame (1981).
Mr. Richardson has served as a part-time faculty member and
lecturer at Loyola University of Chicago's Institute
of Human Resources and Industrial Relations and a trainer
for The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans,
and has published numerous articles on the topic of employee
benefits, including Securing Employee Welfare Benefits
Through ERISA.
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