Cross-Industry Impact: The Reach of Employee Benefits Law

DATE
Monday, November 10, 2025

TIME
12:50 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. ET

LOCATION
W420

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Employee benefits law touches nearly every industry, from finance and healthcare to tech, manufacturing, and higher education. In this panel, employee benefits professionals with careers spanning diverse industries will explore how the practice’s reach extends to traditional employment law, influencing corporate transactions, compliance, tax, labor relations, and beyond. They will discuss how this dynamic and interdisciplinary area of law shapes business decisions, protects workers, and opens unexpected doors for legal practitioners.

Whether you are interested in corporate law, labor and employment, or public policy, this conversation will show how the field of employee benefits offers a powerful entry point to impactful work across private and public sectors.

Panelists:
Ian L. Levin, Partner, McDermott Will & Schulte LLP; Adjunct Professor, New York Law School
Erin Miner ’08, Executive Compensation Counsel
Andrew O’Brien ’01, Partner, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP 
S. John Ryan ’87, Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP

Presented by the the NYLS Labor and Employment Law Project (LELP) and the NYLS student organization Employment and Labor Law Student Association (ELLSA)

Co-Sponsored by the James Tricarico Jr. Institute for the Business of Law and In-House Counsel and the Center for Business and Financial Law