Barley Snyder Recognized Among HRM Outlook’s “Top ERISA Service Providers 2025”

Lancaster, Pa. – Barley Snyder is proud to announce that the firm has been named one of HRM Outlook’s “Top ERISA Service Providers 2025” in the publication’s annual ERISA edition. This recognition highlights Barley Snyder’s depth of experience and dedication in delivering strategic, practical counsel on employee benefits and retirement plan matters.

 

HRM Outlook’s selection is based on nominations from its extensive subscriber base of more than 199,000 professionals across print and digital platforms. The national publication is known for spotlighting organizations that demonstrate exceptional expertise and innovation in the human resources industry, helping companies optimize their HR ecosystems and connect with leading service providers.

 

As part of this recognition, Mark Smith – partner and chair of Barley Snyder’s Employee Benefits Practice Team – was featured in the ERISA Service Providers 2025 edition. In his profile, Smith discusses the firm’s comprehensive approach to employee benefits law, emphasizing Barley Snyder’s commitment to guiding employers through complex compliance, fiduciary, and plan administration challenges.

 

“This recognition reflects the strength of our practice and our dedication to helping clients navigate the ever-changing ERISA landscape,” said Smith. “We’re honored to be included among such respected providers and to share our insights with HRM Outlook’s readership.”

 

With a multidisciplinary team serving employers, plan sponsors and fiduciaries, Barley Snyder’s Employee Benefits Practice provides counsel on all aspects of benefit plan design, administration, and compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

 

Smith brings more than 35 years of experience in employee benefits law. His practice encompasses all aspects of employee benefits and ERISA, including the design, implementation, and administration of health and welfare benefit plans and the fiduciary law aspects of ERISA. Drawing upon his extensive practical experience and technical knowledge, Smith regularly designs and drafts non-retirement benefit plan documents – including insured and self-funded health care plans, welfare benefit plan wrap documents, and Section 125 cafeteria and flexible benefit plan documents – with particular attention to compliance with HIPAA privacy and security requirements, Internal Revenue Code non-discrimination rules, COBRA continuation obligations, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

 

Read the full feature here: https://hrmoutlook.com/barley-snyder/

 

About Barley Snyder
Barley Snyder is a law firm based in Pennsylvania with more than 130 attorneys practicing from offices located in Lancaster, York, Reading, Harrisburg, Lebanon, Malvern, Hanover, Gettysburg and Schuylkill Haven, Pa., and Hunt Valley and Columbia, Md. The firm serves businesses, individuals and organizations in all major areas of civil law including business, employment, immigration, employee benefits, finance & creditors’ rights, intellectual property, litigation, estate planning and administration, real estate, tax, construction, environment and energy, health care, education, municipal authority, hospitality, senior living, cybersecurity and food and agribusiness. www.barley.com | @BarleySnyder

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