I have an appeal pending at the First Circuit right now concerning the interpretation of top hat plans and, thus, with discretion being the better part of valor and all that, I am not going to write too much about this new top hat decision out of the Eighth Circuit. However, for anyone out there

One of my partners, Mark Poerio, an expert on executive compensation, has written a client alert discussing what companies can consider doing proactively to encourage executives to stick around rather than move onto greener pastures. In short, they are all different ways to make the current position “greener,” so to speak, than competing pastures.

This is a great article in PlanAdvisor on the recent decision in Tolbert v. RBC. Tolbert is a truly fascinating, and wonderfully instructive, district court decision on one of my favorite topics, and actually favorite things to do (I know it’s a strange interest, so sue me) – which is the litigation of top