Erin M. Sweeney, former Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) specialist at the U.S. Department of Labor, joined Dickstein Shapiro LLP in 2007 as counsel in the ERISA Practice. Ms. Sweeney was a primary architect of the Department of Labor’s default investment regulation proposal that impacts mutual funds, investment managers, employers, and plan trustees. She also received an Exceptional Achievement award for her participation in drafting the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the most significant pension legislation since the enactment of ERISA, affecting virtually all pension plans, employers, plan investment managers, and plan service providers. In addition, Ms. Sweeney has served as an expert witness for the United States in multiple ERISA criminal matters.

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania, 1989
District of Columbia, 1990
New York, 1997
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Education

Ohio University, B.A. and B.S., 1986, summa cum laude
American University, M.A., 1990
American University Washington College of Law, J.D., 1989, cum laude