About The Instructor
Bret Hamlin is a shareholder in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group at Hill Ward Henderson. He practices primarily in the areas of employee benefits, nonqualified deferred compensation and trusts. Prior to entering the private practice of law, he provided plan design and consulting, third-party administration and investment, as well as retirement plan education services for clients. Bret represents large, medium and small employers with respect to many employee benefit matters, including both single employer and multiple employer qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation and welfare benefit plan matters. A significant portion of his practice involves plan compliance, ERISA fiduciary best practices and plan corrections under Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor compliance resolution and plan correction programs. He also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation with respect to employee benefits matters, including, but not limited to, Internal Revenue Service plan examinations and Department of Labor plan investigations. Bret has been actively involved with the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation for over two decades. He is a former chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation. He is also a former chair of the American Bar Association Joint Committee on Employee Benefits. He is a former president of the Florida West Coast Employee Benefits Council and the current chair of the Tampa Bay Pension Council. Bret is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Bret has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America every year since 2008, and has been named Tampa Employee Benefits (ERISA) Lawyer of the Year in 2014, 2017 and 2021 by Best Lawyers in America.
