Healthcare >> Analyst Interviews >> June 7, 2004

EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFIT ISSUES: KENNETH ROBBETT – WORLDWIDE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS NETWORK

KENNETH G. ROBBETT is President of the Worldwide Employee Benefits Network (WEB) and Managing Partner of Robbett & Robbett, LLP, a Washington, DC, law firm with a national practice concentrating in employee benefits and executive compensation. Mr. Robbett's practice covers the full range of executive compensation, deferred compensation and employee benefit issues. He advises for-profit and tax-exempt employers of all sizes, in all industries and in all areas of the country. In addition, he counsels individual executives of for-profit and tax-exempt entities on their own matters relating to executive and deferred compensation. Mr. Robbett has served as an Adjunct Professor at Catholic University School of Law, where he taught ERISA Tax Policy. He is involved in various American Bar Association and District of Columbia Bar Association activities, and he is a frequent lecturer and panelist at educational programs dealing with employee benefits and executive compensation law. He is the principal author of a leading American Bar Association study on the status of the law governing deferred compensation plans, and has authored numerous articles addressing employee benefits and executive compensation issues. He is a past President of WEB's Washington, DC chapter. His views on employee benefits law have been reported by The Wall Street Journal and CNN Financial News. Prior to entering private practice, he spent five years as an attorney in the Internal Revenue Service's national employee benefits office. Mr. Robbett received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, his law degree from Fordham University, and his LL.M. in Tax Law from the Georgetown University School of Law. Profile
TWST: What is the WEB Network?

Mr. Robbett: The WEB Network, more formally the Worldwide Employee

Benefits Network, is a national organization of employee benefits

professionals, organized in