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Ashley Gillihan

Counsel


Ashley Gillihan is counsel in the Atlanta office and a member of the firm's Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation Groups. Mr. Gillihan focuses his practice exclusively on health and welfare employee benefit compliance and litigation issues for employers, health plan administrators and other health and welfare benefit plan service providers. He also has extensive experience assisting financial institutions and insurance companies who serve as Health Savings Account trustees or custodians.

Mr. Gillihan is active in publishing and speaking on various health and welfare benefit plan related topics and serves as a faculty member and/or technical advisor for several health and welfare benefit plan focused organizations.

Ashley is a member of the Employer’s Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) Technical Advisory Council and the board of editors for the Benefits and Compensation Law Alert published by M.Lee Smith Publishers. He is a faculty member for the Institute for Applied Management and Law (IAML), and he was recently named a contributing author for the Flexible Benefits Answer Book published by Aspen Publishers.

Representative Experience

  • Counsel to several large, national employer/plan sponsors with multiple union and non-union health and welfare plans.
  • Counsel to several third-party administrators who perform a wide range of services from flexible spending account administrator to administration of comprehensive health plans.
  • Counsel to several financial institutions and other financial related entities which serve as Health Savings Account custodians or trustees.


Publications
April 2008
"Proposed Labor Regulations Would Require Greater Disclosures of Fees, Compensation and Conflicts of Interest for Employee Benefit Plan Services Providers," The Self-Insurer, April 2008.
March 2008
"FMLA and Benefit Obligations: New Rights Under an Old Mandate," The Self-Insurer, March 2008.
January 2008
"Transparency of Service Provider Compensation: The New Disclosure Regime Under Form 5500 Schedule C," The Self-Insurer, January 2008.

Ashley Gillihan

One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
Phone: 404-881-7390
Fax: 404-253-8598

Education

  • Samford University
    (J.D., 1996)
  • Western Kentucky University
    (B.A., 1993)

Admitted to Practice

  • Georgia
  • Tennessee
  • Alabama