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Barry Kozak
Associate Director, Graduate Employee Benefits Programs
Director, Elder Law Studies
The John Marshall Law School
315 S. Plymouth Court
Chicago, IL 60604
Phone: 312.427.2737 ext. 524
Email: 6kozak@jmls.edu
BS in Applied Statistics, the University at Albany
JD, The John Marshall Law School
LLM in Employee Benefits, The John Marshall Law School
MPP in Public Finance, Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago
Enrolled Actuary, US Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
Chartered Financial Consultant, American College
Adjunct Member of the Faculty, teaching: Elder Law; Federal Income Tax; Taxation of Corporations, Shareholders, and Corporate Transactions; and Survey of Retirement Plans
Academic Achievements | Leadership Positions
Academic Achievements
Author, "Employee Benefits Plans," Carolina Academic Press (1st Edition, published 2010)
Author, "Employee Benefit Plans and Issues for Small Employers," BNA Tax Management, Compensation Planning Portfolio 353-4th (2010)
Co-editor and lead writer, "Retirement Plans for Small Employers," AICPA (3rd Edition, 2010)
Contributing author, "457 Answer Book," Wolters Kluwer, Aspen Publishers (6th Edition, 2009) Editor, "Important Developments in Employee Benefits Law," The American Bar Association Section of Taxation, Employee Benefits Committee (2008 and 2009)
"Much Ado About the Meaning of 'Benefit Accrual': The Issue of Age Discrimination In Hybrid Cash Balance Plan Qualification Is Dying But Not Yet Dead," Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Proceedings of New York University's 59th Annual Conference on Labor (2006), reprinted from The John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 40, p.867 (Spring 2007, Employee Benefits Symposium edition) (co-authored)
Leadership Positions
American Bar Association Section of Taxation, Vice-Chair of the Membership and Marketing Committee, 2009 - 2010
Chicago Bar Association, Member of the Board of Managers, 2009-2010, immediate past chair of the Employee Benefits Committee, 2009-2010
Association of American Law Schools, Secretary of the Section on Employee Benefits (2009 - 2010), Chair Elect of the Section on Employee Benefits, 2010 – 2011, executive committee of the Section on Aging Law, 2010 – 2011
Annual IRS / ASPPA Great Lakes Employee Benefits Conference, Member of the Executive Planning Committee, 2004 to present
