Jordan Schreier

Michigan

Dickinson Wright PLLC
350 S. Main Street
Suite 300
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Tel: 734-623-1945

Email: JSchreier@dickinsonwright.com
Web: www.dickinson-wright.com

Professional Biography

Mr. Schreier represents clients primarily in the area of ERISA, employee benefits and compensation.

His practice primarily involves advising profit and nonprofit employers on planning and compliance issues involving all aspects of employee benefits, including welfare benefits, qualified retirement and other deferred compensation plans.

His experience includes counseling on executive compensation programs, controlled group planning, multiemployer benefits plans, consumer directed health care, ERISA reporting and disclosure issues, prohibited transactions, fiduciary compliance and best practices, flexible benefits, COBRA, FMLA, ADA, HIPAA and other benefits issues. He counsels employers on compliance with health care reform and serves as legal counsel to numerous pension and 401(k) investment and administrative committees.

Honors, Awards & Recognition

  • The Best Lawyers in America®
    • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Employment Law – Management; Labor Law – Management, 2009-2025
    • “Lawyer of the Year,” Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2017, 2019, 2021
  • Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
    • Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, 2011-2025
  • Michigan Super Lawyers®
    • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2011-2018, 2024
  • DBusiness Magazine
    • “Top Lawyer,” Employee Benefits Law, 2025
    • “Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit,” Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2011-2023

  • Established fiduciary compliance program for qualified retirement plans with 9,000 participants/$600 million in assets; drafted documents on committee members, authority, responsibility and rules and policies for paying expenses from plan assets
  • Assisted tier one automotive supplier in structuring plant closing benefits for union employees; analyzed legal issues on providing pension accruals post-plant closing and advice on benefit funding, vesting and reporting and disclosure obligations
  • Restructured 16 retiree health care programs for major manufacturing company into five consolidated programs with reduced benefits and assisted with retiree communication and acceptance program
  • Designed health risk assessment program that complies with ERISA, HIPAA, ADA, and GINA , integrated with employer’s wellness programs and incentives and determined if eligibility to participate in health plan could be contingent on completing HRA
  • Assisted tier one automotive supplier with merging single employer union pension plan into multiemployer national pension fund; negotiated merger agreement and liability and asset transfer terms; provided technical compliance guidance
  • Provided employee benefits due diligence and reviewed warranties and representations in connection with a private equity investor’s purchase of a major OEM’s glass manufacturing operations in North America
  • Prepared plan documents and coordinated compliance efforts in connection with merger of four defined benefit pension plans into employer’s consolidated national pension plan
  • Successfully obtained IRS approval and Compliance Statement under the Employee Plan Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) to retroactively correct 23 operational and plan document errors for major tier one automotive supplier’s pension plan
  • Prepared HIPAA Privacy and Security policies and procedures for client group health plans, including administrative forms, notices, business associate agreements and plans sponsor certifications; updated documents and procedures to comply with HITECH
  • Advised large manufacturing clients regarding Code Section 409A compliance for executive supplemental deferred compensation plans, deferred compensation plans and in-kind benefit programs

Successful employee benefits and executive compensation planning requires a proactive approach as well as the experience to navigate the complexities of evolving laws and regulations affecting employee benefits. For decades, Dickinson Wright’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice has delivered comprehensive and integrative solutions to serve the needs of employers and their employees while helping clients minimize costs and avoid penalties and litigation.

As a full-service law firm, we draw from our entire firm’s strengths, working closely with members in our Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Labor and Employment, ERISA litigation, and Taxation practices to provide clients a big-picture view of employee benefits matters. Additionally, we consult with actuaries, accountants, and other benefits consultants to ensure that benefits plans and programs meet our clients’ specific business needs and goals.

From start-ups to international corporations, our clients come to us from a variety of industries and include publicly and privately held companies, automotive suppliers, financial institutions, medical providers, and private equity firms.

Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice is ranked in Chambers USA® and many of our team members have been individually recognized by Chambers USA®, Super Lawyers®, Best Lawyers®, and other leading evaluating organizations. Additionally, a number of our lawyers have served as plan sponsors and fiduciaries of the firm’s own retirement and welfare benefit plans.

Dickinson Wright PLLC is a distinguished full-service law firm founded in Detroit in 1878 by Henry Munroe Campbell and Henry Russel. Over its long history, the firm has played significant roles in shaping Michigan’s legal landscape—including contribution to the drafting of the state constitutions of 1908 and 1963, and aiding in the establishment of National Bank of Detroit during the 1933 banking crisis. Since then, Dickinson Wright has strategically grown, now employing over 500 attorneys and offering services across more than 40 practice areas, from corporate, litigation, and intellectual property to real estate and employment law.

Today, Dickinson Wright maintains a robust geographic footprint with offices in key U.S. markets—including Michigan, California, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Kentucky, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, D.C., and Washington state—as well as in Canada, serving Toronto and Windsor. The firm consistently earns recognition for its legal excellence, securing numerous national and metropolitan tier-rankings across a broad range of practice areas in the annual U.S. News–Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms survey. Its attorneys are regularly featured in respected publications like Chambers, Best Lawyers, and Super Lawyers.

“Jordan Schreier heads the employee benefits team and is an experienced adviser to a range of clients, including nonprofit organizations.”
Chambers & Partners