Lawson Lundell LLP

Pensions & Employee Benefits

Murray is the head of Western Canada's largest and most experienced Pensions and Benefits Law Group. He has practiced exclusively in the pension and benefits area since 1994. His clients are boards of trustees and other sponsors of pension and benefit plans in the public and private sectors in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

He has significant experience advising clients with respect to the reorganization and modernization of their pension and benefit plans, as well as their governing documents.  He assisted with the introduction of joint trusteeship to pension plans in the British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba public sectors, and currently acts for more than a dozen joint boards of trustees of public sector pension and benefit plans. Recently, he has been assisting his benefit plan clients transition to the employee life and health trust rules.  He has also been assisting his pension clients address the new rules for SMEPs brought in by Bill C-30.

While Murray is a solicitor, he regularly provides strategic direction and technical support in pension and benefit litigation matters.