Alvin D. Lurie Receives Lifetime Employee Benefits Achievement Award

BenefitsLink congratulates Alvin D. Lurie for having received the Lifetime Employee Benefits Achievement Award from the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on Taxation.

The award was presented to Al at the committee's May 11, 2007 meeting. It reads:

The Employee Benefits Committee

gratefully recognizes and awards to

Alvin D. Lurie

its Lifetime Employee Benefits Achievement Award
for his dedicated service and contributions
improving Employee Benefits Law
on this the 11th day of May, 2007

He was appointed Assistant Commissioner (Employee Plans and Exempt Organizations) as the first person to administer the IRS' ERISA program in the National office in Washington, in the mid-70's. Al has been a prolific author and speaker in the employee benefits community ever since.

Al's broad experience with employee benefit plan operation, design and policy, coupled with his gift for clever and insightful writing -- I think of him as the Mark Twain of ERISA -- make him a national treasure.

He currently is president of Alvin D. Lurie, P.C., in Larchmont NY, and of counsel to The Wagner Law Group, Boston MA.

News about Al's most recent employee benefits activities and the text of various articles he has written, including some published here on BenefitsLink.com, is found at this link (click).

Again, congratulations to Al! You might want drop an email to him at allurie@verizon.net.

-- Dave Baker, BenefitsLink Publisher