Joan Ebert Rothermel is a partner in the law firm of Klein Zelman Rothermel Jacobs & Schess LLP. She specializes in representing management in employment and employee benefits law. Joan is a 1970 cum laude graduate of Goucher College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a 1976 cum laude graduate of Fordham University Law School. Joan's practice includes collective bargaining, arbitration, employment policies and compliance, and employee benefit plans compliance. She is an expert in ERISA, the federal law governing employee pension and welfare benefit plans, as well as the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code governing qualified plans, and serves as counsel to both single and multiemployer benefit plans. Joan represents clients in matters before the Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service, and handles employment and benefits litigation before federal and state administrative agencies and courts.