Sheldon Blumling, Esq.,

Sheldon Blumling is a partner in the Irvine office and a member of the firm’snEmployee Benefits Practice Group. He advises clients with respect to allnaspects of employee benefits and executive compensation, includingnqualified and nonqualified retirement plans, health and other welfarenbenefit plans, cafeteria plans, severance plans and equity-basedncompensation plans. He also advises employers on compliance issuesninvolving the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) andnall types of federal and state employment taxes, and he has had extensivenexperience advising clients on the employee benefits and executivencompensation aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Sheldon joined the firm innits Atlanta office in 1998, and then rejoined the firm in its Irvine office inn2003 after practicing in the tax and employee benefits groups at anfull-service, international law firm for four years. While in law school,nSheldon served as Managing Editor of the University of Miami Entertainmentnand Sports Law Review.