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Kathryn Cimera
Kathryn Cimera concentrates her practice in the employee benefits area with a primary focus on retirement plans, including advising board members and plan administrators on fiduciary obligations and board governance best practices. Kathryn has experience in statutory compliance with respect to federal, state and local laws and helping employers and plan administrators navigate complex issues related to compliance. She also has extensive experience defending public and private employers in all types of employment matters in administrative proceedings and state and federal courts. Immediately prior to joining Bingham Greenebaum Doll, Kathryn served as general counsel for the Indiana Public Employees’ Retirement Fund. Kathryn also clerked at the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association from 1997 to 1999. Contact Kathryn.
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A New Year for Pension Fund Fiduciaries
As I sit here in my office, contemplating why I decided to go back into the practice of law after 15 years in private industry and the public sector, I couldn’t help but be struck by a New Year’s cartoon in this morning’s paper. An impossibly old man with a long beard looking beaten down and frail is wearing a roman-style toga emblazoned with“2010.” He passes something off, perhaps a baton, to a baby in diapers. The 2011…