Barnes, Iaccarino & Shepherd LLP, the successor firm to Roy Barnes, P.C., represents public and private sector unions and their affiliated employee benefit plans. Since its founding Barnes, Iaccarino & Shepherd LLP has provided quality legal services in various areas of labor and employee benefits law, serving clients throughout New York and New Jersey.
The firm is experienced in issues facing unions including working with business agents to assist in organizing employers, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, and representing the union in proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and Public Employment Relations Board.
Our attorneys routinely work with Trustees, fund administrators/managers, plan professionals, and service providers on various benefit funds addressing the daily compliance and internal governance issues involved in providing benefits to participants and their beneficiaries. With over forty years of experience and familiarity with issues facing Taft-Hartley benefit plans, our attorneys are well versed in the technical requirements imposed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and its implementing regulations.
We firmly believe that a collaborative approach works best, striving to work with executive boards, boards of trustees, plan professionals, and service providers as a team. In this respect, our attorneys regularly communicate with union officers, business agents, fund office personnel, trustees, service providers, and investment consultants to address all the concerns and issues facing unions and employee benefit funds.
In our representation of unions and employee benefit funds, our firm has handled hundreds of cases in Federal and State Courts throughout New York and New Jersey, before the National Labor Relations Board and American Arbitration Association, and represented clients before the Department of Labor, Employee Benefit Security Administration, Department of Transportation, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other federal, state, and local agencies.