{"id":17,"date":"2022-01-29T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erisatax.com\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2022-01-29T18:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T00:47:35","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/erisatax.com\/index.php\/curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<!-- divi:heading {\"textAlign\":\"center\"} --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\" id=\"d-brennan-reilly\">D. Brennan Reilly\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><!-- \/divi:heading --><!-- divi:paragraph {\"align\":\"center\"} --><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">3731 Rice Boulevard<br \/>Houston, Texas 77005<br \/>713-839 0855 (voice)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/divi:paragraph --><!-- divi:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"professional-experience\">Professional Experience\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><!-- \/divi:heading --><!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">March 2000 to D. Brennan Reilly, P.C.<br \/>Present Shareholder<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/divi:paragraph --><!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">June 1996 to Winstead Sechrest &amp; Minick, P.C., Dallas and Houston, Texas<br \/>February 2000 Associate<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/divi:paragraph --><!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">February 1995 to Strasburger &amp; Price, LLP, Dallas, Texas<br \/>June 1996 Associate<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/divi:paragraph --><!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">August 1994 to Johnson &amp; Wortley, P.C., Dallas, Texas<br \/>February 1995 Associate<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<h3 id=\"professional-experience\">Practice Area Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Practice consists of counseling clients with respect to tax, ERISA, securities, and other issues relating to employee benefit plans; representing clients before the IRS, DOL, and PBGC; and drafting pension, welfare, and incentive\/executive compensation plans and related documents. Areas of recent concentration include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>negotiating and drafting employee benefits provisions of purchase, divestiture, and outsourcing agreements, including due diligence review of employee benefit plans and related agreements and drafting employee communications regarding transactions;<\/li>\n<li>advising clients regarding the design, administration, and taxation of executive compensation plans and employment agreements, including drafting long term incentive plans and related option and other award agreements;<\/li>\n<li>completing standard and distress terminations of defined contribution and defined benefit plans and mergers of qualified retirement plans;<\/li>\n<li>reviewing and revising medical plans, administrative service agreements, employee communications, and related documents to comply with HIPAA and other legislation;<\/li>\n<li>counseling clients with respect to securities issues and prohibited transaction and fiduciary issues relating to employee benefit plans;<\/li>\n<li>preparing nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements and related documents, including Private Letter Ruling requests;<\/li>\n<li>advising and representing clients with respect to IRS and DOL audits and voluntary compliance programs (including VCP submissions);<\/li>\n<li>drafting RFPs for turnkey administration of qualified retirement and welfare plans;<\/li>\n<li>assisting clients with self compliance audits of qualified retirement, welfare, and incentive stock option plans (including interviewing and engaging outside auditors);<\/li>\n<li>drafting claim determinations and negotiating claim settlements; and<\/li>\n<li>establishing procedures and documentation for outsourced review of QDROs and QMCSOs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"professional-experience\">Education<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas<br \/>J.D. with Honors, 1994; Rice Scholar; Associate Editor, Texas Law Review<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, Texas<br \/>B.S. Economics, magna cum laude, 1991; Presidents Endowed Scholarship; Buck Weirus Award<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<h3>Professional Licenses &amp; Associations<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">State Bar of Texas (licensed 1994)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Houston Bar Association<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Houston ERISA Industry Group<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">SouthWest Benefits Association<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">ASPA Benefits Council of the Texas Gulf Coast<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Employee Benefits Section of the State Bar of Texas<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<h3>Speeches, Publications &amp; Awards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaker and author \u201cPlan Expense Litigation, Some Surprising Developments,\u201d June 8, 2010, Houston ERISA Industry Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaker and author \u201cERISA Fiduciary Breach Litigation after LaRue,\u201d May 13, 2008, Houston ERISA Industry Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaker and author \u201cPension Overpayments \u2013 Tax and ERISA Issues,\u201d September 13, 2005, Houston ERISA Industry Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Texas Monthly Magazine \u201cTexas Super Lawyer \u2013 Employee Benefits\/ERISA\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaker and author \u201cEmployee Benefits \u2013 Recent Developments,\u201d March 9, 2004, Houston ERISA Industry Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaker and author \u201cHIPAA Privacy Rules \u2013 Compliance for Health Plans and Related Documents,\u201d April 9, 2002, Houston ERISA Industry Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaker \u201cVendor Contracting: Cost-Effective Negotiations \/ Key Issues in the Service Contract,\u201d May 22, 2000, 25th Annual Conference of the SouthWest Benefits Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Author &#8220;Employee Benefits and the Contingent Workforce,&#8221; published in the June 18, 1999 Houston Business Journal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Author &#8220;An Overview of Executive Compensation Arrangements,&#8221; presented by John Bergner at the 1999 State Bar of Texas Advanced Estate Planning Course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaker and author &#8220;Introduction to Retirement Plans,&#8221; presented at the 1999 Fundamentals of Employee Benefits Seminar of the DFW Chapter ISCEBS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaker and author &#8220;Overview of Employee Benefit Statutes, Plans, and Terms,&#8221; presented at the 1998 State Bar of Texas Professional Development Program (Houston and Dallas).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Speaker and author &#8220;Department of Labor Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance Program,&#8221; presented at Strasburger &amp; Price Annual Seminar for CPAs and Accountants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<h3>Civic &amp; Charitable<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">West University Rotary Club \u2013 November 2009 to present<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">AARP Tax Aide ERO and Site Captain \u2013 December 2005 to present<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">West University Place Rice Pocket Park Task Force \u2013 September, 2004 to December, 2007<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">West University Place Parks Board \u2013 August, 2003 to September, 2005<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/divi:paragraph -->[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D. Brennan Reilly\u00a0 3731 Rice BoulevardHouston, Texas 77005713-839 0855 (voice)\u00a0 Professional Experience\u00a0 March 2000 to D. Brennan Reilly, P.C.Present Shareholder June 1996 to Winstead Sechrest &amp; Minick, P.C., Dallas and Houston, TexasFebruary 2000 Associate February 1995 to Strasburger &amp; Price, LLP, Dallas, TexasJune 1996 Associate August 1994 to Johnson &amp; Wortley, P.C., Dallas, TexasFebruary 1995 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erisatax.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erisatax.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erisatax.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erisatax.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erisatax.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erisatax.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/erisatax.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erisatax.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}