Sherry A. Stein

Joining the firm in 1983, Sherry is a shareholder in the Employment, Labor and Benefits Group and specializes in employee benefits, specifically:

• Qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation plans.
• Cafeteria plans.
• Executive deferred compensation.
• Health and welfare benefit plans.
• COBRA issues.

Sherry's focus is helping design, implement and maintain employee benefit plans and programs that meet clients' needs and that are compliant.  To that point, she also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Labor with compliance, correction and audit matters.  

A strong advocate of keeping clients abreast of the ever-changing employment, labor and benefits law, Sherry spearheads the practice group's quarterly newsletters and breaking news email blast programs.

Sherry is a past leader of the firm's Employment, Labor and Benefits practice group and is active in the Employee Benefit sections of the local, state and national bar associations as well as the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sherry secured her undergraduate degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York and her legal education, from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1982, where she graduated cum laude and was a member of the Delta Theta Phi Fraternity.

Highlights & Recognitions

News

• 21 Foster Swift Attorneys named to 2011 Michigan Super Lawyers; 4 named Michigan Rising Stars, September 12, 2011
• 18 Foster Swift Lawyers Included on 2010 Super Lawyers List, October 28, 2010
• Foster Swift's 2011 Best Lawyers, August 17, 2010
• Nineteen Foster Swift Attorneys Named in 2009 Super Lawyers, September 22, 2009
• Foster Swift Announces 2009 Best Lawyers, August 18, 2009
• Foster Swift Announces 2008 Best Lawyers In America, September 18, 2008
• Foster Swift Announces 2008 Super Lawyers, July 28, 2008

Publications

• Equitable Relief May Be Available to Employees to Reform Misstatements Made in SPDs, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits Quarterly, Fall 2011
• The Plan Administrator’s Selection of Investment Options is a Fiduciary Concern, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits Quarterly, Spring 2011
• DOL Issues Model Notices for Required Health Reform Act Disclosures, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits E-News, July 20, 2010
• Further Clarification as to Grandfathered Health Plans Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA"), Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits E-News, July 15, 2010
• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Market Reforms, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits E-News, June 22, 2010
• Health Care Reform/Cafeteria Plan Amendments Required by December 31, 2010, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits Quarterly, Summer 2010

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Memberships & Affiliations

Legal Affiliations:

• State Bar of Michigan, Employee Benefits Committee
• American Bar Association, Employee Benefits Committee
• Ingham County Bar Association

Industry & Professional Associations:

• Women Lawyers Association of Michigan