Practice:

• Corporate
• ERISA Litigation
• International Practice
• Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits
• Private Client
• Schools & Colleges
• Tax
• Tax Controversy

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Tax Court

Experience:

Evelyn Haralampu oversees the employee benefits, executive compensation/ERISA practice at Burns & Levinson LLP. Ms. Haralampu has extensive experience advising businesses, non-profit entities and individuals in employee benefits, executive compensation, tax, employment and related areas of law. In particular, she counsels on employee benefit plans and their design, ERISA fiduciary requirements, executive compensation programs, equity-based compensation, health care privacy, employment law, and related tax and international issues. Her work involves counsel in these areas in many contexts, including corporate mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, bankruptcies, litigation and succession planning. She also counsels individuals on benefits issues related to estate planning and property settlements in divorce. Ms. Haralampu represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Labor, and counsels on ERISA controversies in the federal courts.

Ms. Haralampu has contributed to the continued professional education of Massachusetts lawyers in a number of capacities. She has chaired the Boston Bar Association ERISA/Employee Benefits Committee, and co-chaired the Tax Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association. She was invited to be a member of the Tax Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association and Boston Bar Association Steering Committee on Professional Education.

Ms. Haralampu has been a contributing member of the Committee on Government Submissions of the American Bar Association and, in that capacity, has assisted the ABA in recommending policy changes in the federal tax law. She is a current, active member of ABA Section of Taxation Employee Benefits Committee.

Ms. Haralampu speaks and writes extensively on various ERISA, HIPAA, employee benefits, executive compensation and related tax matters, both to professional and lay audiences. She is a contributing author of the MCLE treatise, Massachusetts Employment Law, and a recent panelist and author for the Federal Tax Institute of New England. She is also published in the National Law Journal, Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech and The Journal of Taxation and Investments.

Ms. Haralampu was recently appointed to the Property and Casualty Insurance Advisory Committee by the selectmen of the Town of Belmont. She has been a member of the boards of directors of non-profit and governmental organizations focused primarily on the education of children, the needs of retired workers, workplace issues and town planning. Ms. Haralampu sits on the Board of Directors for a number of non-profit organizations, including the New England Pension Assistance Project of the Gerontology Institute at University of Massachusetts Boston and is active in assisting that organization in its pro bono work.

Memberships:

• American Bar Association, member of the Tax and Labor Section
• New Workplace Institute, Inc., Board member
• New England Conservatory, Board of Visitors member
• UMass Boston Pension Project Gerontology Institute, Board member
• Belmont Center Planning Group for the Town of Belmont, Massachusetts, (past Board member)
• Boston Bar Association, Steering Committee on Professional Education, (past Board member)
• Massachusetts Bar Association, Tax Council, (past Board member)
• Youth Pro Musica, a charitable organization, (past Board member)

Additional Information:

• Advisor, Boston Preparatory Charter School

Education:

• LL.M., Boston University School of Law
• J.D., Suffolk University Law School
• Honors graduate, Wellesley College

Awards:

• Ms. Haralampu has an AV (highest) rating from Martindale.
• While at Suffolk University Law School, Ms. Haralampu was invited to serve as a law review editor.
• Massachusetts Super Lawyer in 2006, 2005 and 2004. The selection of attorneys is based on a poll and internal research done by Law & Politics Magazine and reviewed by an independent blue ribbon panel of their peers. Listed attorneys and finalists consist of the top 5% of attorneys in Massachusetts. The listing appeared in the November issue of Boston Magazine and in New England Super Lawyers Magazine.

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