About the Law Offices of Allen Steinberg

Allen T. Steinberg, J.D.

Allen T. Steinberg, J.D. Allen is the founder and president of The Law Offices of Allen T. Steinberg, P.C. He has over 25 years’ of experience providing employers with advice, ideas and support for their employee benefit plans. Allen’s experience includes over 20 years as a consulting attorney for a major employee benefits and actuarial consulting firm and 4 years with a large Chicago law firm.

Allen has written for a range of publications, including Benefits Quarterly, The Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance, The Journal of Pension Benefits, Compensation & Benefits Review, and HR Magazine. Allen is the coauthor of a volume on Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans and was a contributing author to a treatise on Fundamentals of Flexible Compensation.

Allen also speaks regularly on benefits issues. His recent speeches include

• “A Practical Guide to Phased Retirement” (2008 World at Work Conference),

• “Retiree Medical Benefits: Changes, Implications and Considerations” (TIAA-CREF 2008 Client Conference),

• “Will Retirement be Affordable for Your Institution? For Your Faculty and Staff?” (2008 CUPA-HR Midwest Region Conference),

• “Retiree Medical Benefits: Healthy Options for the Love/Hate Relationship” (2007 World at Work Conference),

• “Tackling the Retiree Medical Nightmare: Positioning Retiree Medical Benefits as a Strategic Advantage: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Next” (2006 Annual Conference; National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges),

• Seeking Remedies to the Retiree Health Care Challenge” (2006 TIAA-CREF Institute Symposium).

Allen holds a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania (1976) and a J.D. cum laude from Northwestern University Law School (1979). Allen is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and The American Bar Association.