First Admitted: 1990, Pennsylvania

Bar/Professional Activity:

American Law Institute - CLE writer and speaker; American Bar Assocation (including several committees, subcomittees, and task forces); Pennsylvania Bar Institute - CLE writer and speaker; Philadelphia Bar Association - Employee Benefits Committee, Professional Guidance Committee (previous), CLE writer and speaker; ASPPA Benefits Council of Greater Philadelphia - steering committee, CLE/CPE writer and speaker; National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators - previously Legislation and Regulation Committee, Investments Committee, 403(b) task force

Verdicts/Settlements (Case Results):

Because my role as counsel was not disclosed, I must not reveal the settlements that were supported by my knowledge and work.

Videos:

Peter Gulia led this continuing-legal-education course for the Philadelphia Bar Association., Understanding the new investment-advice fiduciary rule, Philadelphia Bar Association, 2016
Peter Gulia helped design this education series, about the U.S. Labor department's investment-advice fiduciary rule, for The American College of Financial Services. The videos, including those in which Peter Gulia appeared, are available from The American College., How Will the DOL Fiduciary Rule Impact You?, The American College Of Financial Services, 2016

Representative Clients:

Transactions:

Sale of Travelers Life and Annuity and some businesses of CitiStreet to MetLife, 2005
CitiStreet, a joint venture of Citigroup and State Street Bank and Trust Company, 1999

Pro bono/Community Service:

Choral Arts Philadelphia, CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia, CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, Healthy Teen Living, Orpheus Club of Philadelphia, Philomathean Endowment Trust, Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, Social Impact Commons, The Women's Sacred Music Project

Educational Background:

White Papers:

The authors explain why professionally-managed accounts often can be superior to target-year funds as a qualified default investment alternative., The Final Frontier: Investment Advice and Professionally Managed Accounts, BenefitsLink, 2007
Using ERISA's new default-investment rule to avoid liability for participants' failures to choose investments: A new rule provides an ERISA-governed retirement plan's fiduciary some relief from responsibility for deciding exactly how to invest a plan account of a participant, beneficiary, or alternate payee who hasn't directed investment. If a plan provides for investment under a qualified default investment alternative and meets several conditions, a plan fiduciary isn't liable for what results because of investing an individual's account in a QDIA. The rule's relief is available not only for a default investment made under an implied-election or "automatic-contribution" arrangement but also for other default investments. , Using ERISA’s new default-investment rule to avoid liability for participants’ failures to choose investments, BenefitsLink, 2007

Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

This coursebook is for law school courses on research and writing methods, focused for tax practitioners., Tax Research and Writing
This coursebook is for law school JD and LLM students., author, Fiduciary Responsibility for Employee-Benefit Plans
This coursebook is for post-doctoral law students, and business students. It focuses on professional-conduct rules and how they specially apply to a lawyer, accountant, actuary, or other practitioner because her practice involves tax law., Professional Conduct In Tax Practice

Firm News (Newsletters):

I am a contributing editor of, and write monthly articles for, 401(k) Advisor newsletter. Most of my articles are about ways for an employer to meet its fiduciary responsibility in managing a retirement plan. , 401(k) Advisor monthly newsletter, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

Industry Groups:

retirement plans; retirement-services providers; investment advisers; law firms; accounting firms; a

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