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  5 fee disclosure steps for plan sponsors

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  April 10, 2012

  With 408(b)(2) disclosures for plan sponsors looming just on the horizon, here's a checklist of five ways to properly communicate, explain fees and meet participant deadlines.

• 1 in 4 attorneys plans to hire in Q2

  By Amanda McGrory  |  March 14, 2012

  More than one-quarter of lawyers at 26 percent plan to hire full-time legal staff during the second quarter; however, 4 percent of lawyers expect to cut staff, according to the quarterly Robert Half Legal Hiring Index.

• Industry groups collaborate to promote lifetime income options

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  February 9, 2012

  The Retirement Income Industry Association and the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association have agreed to jointly manage a new working group of financial services and retirement industry firms to help providers of retirement income products, services and solutions collaborate to include life income options in defined contribution plans.

• Balance client expectations

  By Bob Heston  |  January 1, 2012

  Most of us would never retain a lawyer who promised we would be her “24th most important case this month.” But the reality is that good attorneys take every case seriously.

• 1 in 3 lawyers plans to hire in first quarter

  By Amanda McGrory  |  December 16, 2011

  Thirty-one percent of lawyers plan to hire legal staff in the first quarter of 2012, but another 4 percent expect to cut staff, according to the a quarterly legal hiring survey by Robert Half Legal, a legal staffing firm.

• Rights group: Coverage for gender surgery jumps

  By Lisa Leff  |  December 8, 2011

  The number of major U.S. companies covering the cost of gender reassignment surgery for transgender workers has more than doubled in the past year, according to a new scorecard compiled by the nation's largest gay rights group.

• Lawyers to check for SC retirement system fraud

  August 29, 2011

  South Carolina will hire lawyers to monitor investments in the state's retirement system for waste, fraud and abuse.

• How employees' legal issues impact productivity

  By Bill Brooks  |  July 6, 2011

  Most employees try to keep their personal and professional lives separate. But when it comes to legal matters, separation turns out to be much easier said than done.

• Anthem settles policyholder suit

  By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer  |  June 21, 2011

  Anthem Blue Cross has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the health insurer of manipulating policies and forcing California patients into higher deductible policies with fewer benefits.

• The art of prospecting

  By Marty Traynor  |  November 30, 2010

  Occasionally, I get an e-mail asking for information on a topic we haven't covered in this column.