Michael A. Vanic is a partner in the firm's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice Group.  He has approximately 30 years of experience in ERISA litigation, involving both retirement plans and welfare benefit plans and representing single-employer, multi-employer, government and church plans, plan sponsors, fiduciaries and service providers in a wide range of ERISA claims including fiduciary breach, denial of benefits, service provider malpractice, withdrawal liability and other qualified plan and non-qualified deferred compensation matters.

In General. Mike earned his J.D., cum laude, from Loyola University of Los Angeles where he was Alpha Sigma Nu and a member of the St. Thomas More Honor Society.  He received his B.A, magna cum laude, from the University of Southern California and his A.A. from The Pennsylvania State University.