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Legal Industry Retirement Plan Challenges

Christine Crowe, administrative partner at Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, discusses the unique challenges that law firms face when designing and running a retirement plan.

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Christine Crowe (00:00):

Some of the unique challenges of sponsoring your own 401k plan in the legal industry are that you have a very diverse employee population in terms of not only age, but also financial resources and financial knowledge and investment knowledge. So there are those very diverse groups and you can’t just offer generic education or generic sessions to them to try to encourage them to invest, right? You want to give all of those groups appropriate opportunities to both learn and invest, to help their overall and their long-term financial stability.

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You have to go and above and beyond your fiduciary responsibilities in terms of educating yourself as to appropriate fees for that you are paying for record keeping services, the fees that are associated with the different funds or products that you’re offering within your plan. The diversification within your plan of the product offerings, as well as the flexibility of your plan. For example, to allow people to contribute even though they might be part-time workers, or allow people to contribute immediately upon joining the firm or allow people to take perhaps more loans than a standard 401K plan might allow you to take.

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CAPTRUST extensive knowledge within the industry, both the legal industry as well as the larger 401K employer industry was incredibly helpful to us. We were able to assess what was out there, what others in the industry were offering, and how we might better be able to serve our plan participants.

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