Ronald E. Richman is a partner and co-head of Schulte Roth & Zabel’s Employment & Employee Benefits Group. His practice concentrates on the litigation of employee benefits, partnership cases, disputes involving hedge and private equity funds, employment disputes between employers and key employees, and restrictive covenant cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Ron defends employee benefit plans, fiduciaries and employers in class actions and in cases brought by individual plaintiffs. He also represents employers, employee benefit plans, fiduciaries and investment managers before the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service in connection with novel issues of law concerning plan mergers, terminations, spin-offs, fiduciary duties and prohibited transactions, and various aspects of withdrawal liability and mass withdrawal liability. He has litigated, arbitrated and advised on several hundred withdrawal liability matters for multiemployer pension funds and employers. He has been very active in advising and representing employers and multiemployer pension plans in connection with the pension provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act. He has litigated and advised on numerous restrictive covenant cases involving trade secrets, non-competition, nonsolicit, and breach of confidentiality and breach of loyalty issues. Ron has a large amount of experience in complex litigation, including class actions and disputes involving numerous parties.
Ron is listed in Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, New York Super Lawyers and Benchmark Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys as a leading labor and employment litigation attorney. He is a fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and a member of the CPR Employment Dispute Committee of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. A former adjunct professor in NYU School of Continuing Education’s Certified Employee Benefits Specialist Program, Ron frequently speaks and writes on employee benefit and employment topics of interest to the H.R. community, including presentations on legislative efforts in Congress to revise the law governing multiemployer pension plans, noncompetition agreements to federal court judges, the use of restrictive covenants by investment managers and legal issues for employers concerning the return to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ron received a B.S. from the Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar and winner of the Emil Schlesinger Labor Law Prize.
Updated Sep 2023
