Bruce is chair of the firm's Employee Benefits and Compensation Group and focuses on advising and counseling employers, institutions, and nonprofit organizations, including many publicly traded companies, with respect to benefit matters. He represents employers and executives with respect to retirement and welfare benefits, and cash and noncash compensation, including equity-based compensation. He also advises clients on the implications of tax, securities, labor, and other laws, including ERISA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Attorney Barth is a member of the Taxation and Business Law Sections of the American Bar Association as well as the Section on Taxation's Employee Benefits Committee. He is past president of the Hartford Chapter of the Worldwide Employee Benefits Network and a past member of its national board of directors. He is currently a member of the board of the Connecticut Public Pension Forum, a nonprofit organization focusing on providing education and advice to governmental plan fiduciaries.

Mr. Barth received his B.S. in accounting, magna cum laude, from the University of Connecticut, his J.D. with honors from The George Washington University National Law Center, and his master of laws in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. He has been listed in Best Lawyers since 1995 and has been named as one of Connecticut's Super Lawyers since 2006 in the areas of Employee Benefits/ERISA, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Employment & Labor Law.

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