Benefits Consulting

Trest performs preemptive audits of plan documentation, operation and administration to enable plan sponsors to correct non-compliance prior to a regulatory examination, which allows the avoidance of costly fees and penalties.

Our employee benefits lawyers and consultants are experienced in counseling Federal, State and local levels of government on the operation and administration of public sector retirement and health and welfare plans.

Our professionals assist the client with defining their goals and objectives in offering defined contribution, defined benefit and executive retirement benefits and strategically recommends designs based upon the client’s intentions.

Trest professionals design a variety of health and welfare plans and programs and manage the plan sponsor’s vendor relationships.

We bring a broad knowledge of best practices to our benefits communications strategy, and ensure that the complexity, tone and presentation is appropriate for the audience.

Our talented employee benefits lawyers have decades of experience advising plan fiduciaries on their fiduciary duties, and on the avoidance of fiduciary status.

Trest is highly knowledgeable about the vast universe of alternative benefit options that employers may offer their employees either as a supplement to or in lieu of other benefit offerings, and can locate providers of virtually any benefit that comes to mind.

Trest conducts classification, compensation and benefit studies, and comparative and gap analysis, which is often utilized by our clients to develop a multi-year compensation and benefits strategy.