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Brianna is an associate in the firm’s Employee Benefits + Executive Compensation Practice Group. She assists clients on all aspects of employee benefit matters, including the design and administration of qualified employee benefit plans, health and welfare plans, cafeteria plans and stock options, and other equity and/or incentive-based compensation plans. She also regularly advises clients on the wide variety of compliance issues that arise in the administration of those plans.

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Last May, we provided a client alert about a recent federal district court case (Spence v. American Airlines, No. 4:23-cv-00552-O, 2025 WL 225127, at *2 (N.D. Tex. Jan. 10, 2025)), in which a plan sponsor and certain plan fiduciaries were found to have breached their ERISA fiduciary duty of loyalty based primarily on conduct related to proxy voting of securities held in certain of the 401(k) plans’ investment funds. At that time, the court left open the question of whether the breach resulted in any damages to the participants.