Attorneys

Mark Smith concentrates his practice in counseling clients in all aspects of employee benefits and ERISA, including the design and implementation of retirement and welfare benefit plans, administration of retirement and welfare benefit plans, retirement planning and taxation of plan distributions and fiduciary law aspects of ERISA. He has considerable experience with a broad range of employee benefit programs, including qualified pension, profit sharing and 401(k) plans, welfare benefit plans (including health care arrangements, retiree health plans, cafeteria plans and VEBAS) and nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements. Before joining Barley Snyder, Mark was the manager of global employee benefits compliance at AMP, Inc., where he oversaw the design, financial management and legal compliance of benefit programs worldwide. Earlier, he was the benefits practice leader in Central Pennsylvania with an international accounting and consulting firm.

• University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., cum laude
• Villanova University Law School, LL.M in Taxation
• University of Georgia, BBA, general honors

• Conestoga Valley Youth Soccer Club; board member
• Conestoga Valley Youth Athletic Association Boys Basketball; board member
• Conestoga Valley girls and boys youth basketball coach
• Conestoga Valley girls and boys youth soccer coach
• Child Care Consultants, Inc.; board member

• Pennsylvania

• Mark serves as an adjunct professor of law at The Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University, where he developed and teaches the Pension and Employee Benefits Law Course and is a recipient of the Edward C. First Adjunct Faculty Award.

• Provided expert testimony on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor/HHS regarding ERISA and health care reform
• Provided expert testimony on behalf of the Corporate Health Care Coalition before the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources concerning external review and ERISA remedies
• Developed seminar on QDROs for The Dickinson School of Law Family Law Clinic
• Author of a series of employee benefit articles for the Association of Pennsylvania Contractors
• Regional Bankruptcy Trustees Meeting - Impact of PPACA on Employers and Employer Plans  
• Barley Snyder Employment Law Group Seminar - Time for a Health & Welfare Benefit Plan Compliance Check-Up
• Murray IHC Health Plan Consortium - Fringe Benefits Taxation, Wellness and Self-Insured Medical Plan Discrimination Testing
• PA Chamber of Business and Industry Healthcare Roundtable - Understanding Healthcare Regulations
• Lancaster Bar Association - Federal Healthcare Reform and What it Means for Employers
• Murray Construction Consortium - Welfare Benefit Plan Document Requirements and Non-Discrimination