Eva T. Cantarella
Attorney Profile
Top Rated Employee Benefits Attorney in Bloomfield Hills, MI
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302
- Employee Benefits
As a partner with the Hertz Schram PC law firm in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, attorney Eva T. Cantarella focuses her practice primarily on ERISA pension law, serving clients in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as the rest of the country.
An accomplished attorney, she has prosecuted 14 class action suits and represented numerous individual employees with their cases involving pension benefits, securing more than $120 million to date. Most recently, she and her partners recovered over $39 million in past and future pension benefits in a class action on behalf of a group of disabled persons whose disability retirement benefits were drastically and unlawfully reduced.
Ms. Cantarella began her legal career in 1994 after obtaining her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Wayne State University Law School in Detroit and her license to practice from the State Bar of Michigan. In addition to practicing before the U.S. District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan, she can legally practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Supreme Court and most U.S. Courts of Appeals.
Well-versed in her practice areas, Ms. Cantarella has published humdreds of pension blogs, and has presented on pension issues in numerous forums, including giving textimony to Treasury in Washington DC.
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About Eva Cantarella
Admitted: 1994, Michigan
Professional Webpage: http://www.pensionjustice4you.net/Our-Pension-Team/Eva-Canta...
Honors/Awards:
- Lawyer Monthly Women in Law (in practice area of labor and employment), 2016
- Finance Monthly Pension Lawyer of the Year, USA, 2017
- Named a Leading Lawyer by Leading Lawyers, a division of Law Bulletin Publishing, 2016
- Lawyer Monthly Women in Law (in practice area of pensions), 2017
- Named a Leading Lawyer by Leading Lawyers, a division of Law Bulletin Publishing, 2015
Bar/Professional Activity:
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
- Member, ASPPA Benefits Council of Detroit (a/k/a ABC of Detroit)
- U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
- Michigan Bar, Tax Section
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Tax Court
- U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
Pro bono/Community Service:
- I provide hundreds of free telephone consults on myriad pension issues each year.
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
- A Class Act: ERISA Pension Claims and the Class Action Mechanism (published in the National Lawyers Weekly and Michigan Lawyers Weekly), 2002
- Law Review: Wayne Law Review, Wayne State University Law School
- Practical Law - Employee Benefits, Comcast Cable Television, 1997
- Practical Law - Pensions, Comcast Cable Television, 2003
- ERISA Fiduciary Compliance Review, Deloitte & Touche, 1999
- Cash Balance Plans, Employee Benefit Security Administration, 1999
- Cash Balance Plans, ISCEBS - Detroit Area Chapter, 2000
- Corporate Funds Forum - Cash Balance Plans - The Right Way, Investment Management Institute, 1999
- Corporate Funds Forum - Round Table on Cash Balance Plans, Investment Management Institute, 2000
- Cash Balance Plans, Michigan Bar, Tax Section Employee Benefits Subcommittee, 2000
- ERISA Litigation Seminar, Oakland County Bar Association, 2003
- Pension Issues, IRS &Treasury Department, 2003
- Pension Issues, Michigan Center for Aging Policies, 2004
- Employee Benefits Committee - Cash Balance Plans, Chicago Bar Association, 2004
Verdicts/Settlements:
- Underwood v. Carpenters Pension Trust Fund - Detroit & Vicinity Pension Plan, 2016
- Lyons v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. Salaried Employees Retirement Plan
- Humphrey v. United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast
- Crosby v. Bowater Incorporated Retirement Plan for Salaried Employees
Representative Clients:
- For Pension Issues: Pension Plan Participants, Retirees, and Beneficiaries of These Individuals. For Property Tax Appeals: Owners of Commercial and Industrial Real Property
Educational Background:
- Oakland University, Rochester, B.A. in Political Science & Economics, Summa Cum Laude, Awards in Mathematics
Industry Groups
- Pension
- Retirement
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Last Updated: 4/16/2019