David I. Schiller is one of the national co-chairman of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group. He is a 1983 graduate of Stanford Law School with high honors, where he served on the Stanford Law Review, and has a Bachelor of Arts in political philosophy from Cornell University honors program, graduating summa cum laude in 1980. Mr. Schiller is a Partner in the Employee Benefits/ERISA/Executive Compensation practice group in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Dallas office.

Mr. Schiller's Executive Compensation practice runs the full gamut of tax, ERISA, accounting, corporate, and securities law aspects of stock option, SAR, restricted stock, and employee stock purchase plans; nonqualified deferred compensation; SERPs; executive employment agreements, golden parachutes and other change in control arrangements; severance, confidentiality, and noncompete contracts; performance bonus and incentive plans; director's pay; rabbi trusts; split dollar life insurance; excess benefit and top hat plans; and the like.

Mr. Schiller's employee benefits experience includes representation of clients concerning pension, 401(k), and profit-sharing plans, including various discrimination, plan investment, fiduciary duty, prohibited transaction, plan design, accrued benefit, PBGC, plan termination, plant closing, tax qualification, collective bargaining, SEC, ERISA and Internal Revenue Code issues. In addition, Mr. Schiller represents boards of trustees for numerous multiemployer pension, health, and apprenticeship plans. He has also done considerable work concerning early retirement "window" programs, age discrimination in employment (ADEA) issues, and bankruptcy-related employee benefit matters, as well as extensive litigation and controversy work in connection with fiduciary breach allegations, benefit claims, reversion termination disputes, and preemption issues.

Mr. Schiller also frequently counsels on welfare plan issues involving managed care, subrogation, Medicare, COB, HMO's, health plans, workers compensation, Americans with Disabilities Act, COBRA, FMLA, EEOC, retiree medical liabilities, cafeteria plans, life and disability insurance, VEBAs, and severance pay. His experience also includes extensive transactional work on employee benefit related areas of mergers, acquisitions, ESOPs, credit agreements, plan assets, and private placements.

Mr. Schiller has spoken at many employee benefit conferences and has authored numerous articles in the Employee Benefits field, including publications regarding pension coverage and nondiscrimination rules, published at various ALI-ABA Seminars and Prentice-Hall Law & Business Conferences; author of an article entitled "Health Plan Discrimination -- Living with the 'New' Old Rules," published in the Summer 1991 issue of Benefits Law Journal; author of "ERISA Litigation," published in connection with the 1993 University of Houston Employment Law Seminar; author of a paper on fiduciary liability delivered at various investment management seminars; author of an article on Managed Health Care, presented at the 1993 Employers Council on Flexible Compensation seminar; and author of "Employee Benefit Issues In Forming Joint Ventures," published at various ALI-ABA Seminars.

Mr. Schiller is a member of the American Bar Association, Taxation Committee, Section on Employee Benefits, Subcommittee on Retiree Health, VEBAs and Other Funding Vehicles. His entry on behalf of a client was the recipient of the 1993 International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans "Creative Excellence in Benefits Award," for work done on retiree medical issues.