Online CLE ERISA Litigation

Robert M. Forni, Jr. is a partner in Ropers Majeski’s San Francisco office.  With two decades of litigation experience and expertise in ERISA, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation involving commercial and personal lines of insurance, Mr. Forni specializes in the representation of insurers, employers, employee welfare benefit plans and their fiduciaries in all phases of litigation, in state and federal court. Mr. Forni has also provided services as insurer-selected counsel for insureds, and independent representation of insureds as Cumis counsel. Mr. Forni is experienced in preparing comprehensive coverage opinions, counseling insurers and employee welfare plans throughout the claims and litigation process, and developing practical and efficient solutions for clients that achieve their business and legal objectives. Mr. Forni’s expertise extends to commercial and personal lines of insurance, including disability, health, commercial general liability, commercial property, homeowners and automobile.

David R. Johanson is Partner-in-Charge of the Napa office of Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP.  He also has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas to cover his national client base with a team of more than 20 partners, associates, and paralegals. David and his team assist in general corporate matters and in employee ownership, benefit, ERISA, and related business matters, with an emphasis on executive compensation, equity incentive plans, non-qualified deferred compensation, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), ESOP transactions, mergers and acquisitions (and related tax planning), and business succession and estate planning. David and his team have defended ERISA fiduciaries, plan sponsors, selling shareholders, and investment advisers in ERISA litigation matters involving ESOPs and business transactions in federal and state courts throughout the country in a wide range of controversies covering ERISA fiduciary responsibilities, ESOP valuation disputes, disclosure obligations, investment issues, non-competition disputes, and tax matters. David has extensive experience in negotiating ESOP, ERISA, and other issues with government regulatory agencies and in representing ERISA fiduciaries and members of Boards of Directors and officers in state and federal litigation throughout the country.