Diane M. Wittenberg has been a tax/pension attorney and employee benefits consultant for almost twenty years. She has extensive experience in drafting qualified retirement plans, welfare plans, fringe benefit programs, recordkeeping agreements and investment management agreements. She has provided counseling to a wide variety of clients and service providers relating to employee benefit issues, reporting and disclosure requirements, fiduciary responsibility, prohibited transactions, plan administration including participant loans, distributions, rollovers and QDROs.

Diane has drafted, reviewed and negotiated numerous QDROs and has developed QDRO procedures, sample QDRO language, and internal processing policies for both service providers and plan sponsors. In addition, Diane has been responsible for "qualifying" domestic relations orders on behalf of plan administrators.

Most recently, Diane has proivded services to family law practicioners and their clients to draft QDROs, review QDROs prepared by other professionals and assists with pension-related issues.

Diane received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Mississippi where she was an Editor of the Mississippi Law Journal. She also received her Masters of Law in Taxation from Boston University where she was a member of the Boston University Journal of Tax Law.

Diane is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts. She is also a member of the American and Massachusetts Bar Associations.