Marcelle J. Henry - a New York, USA Employee Benefits/ERISA Lawyer

New York Employee Benefits/ERISA Lawyer

Updated: 03/10/2026

Areas of Practice

Employee Benefits/ERISA

Attorney Information

Overview

Ms. Henry has joined our firm as a partner and chairperson of our ERISA/Employee Benefits Practice Group. Ms. Henry has over 10 years' experience representing multiemployer Taft-Hartley pension and welfare funds, regularly advising clients on ERISA plan administration and compliance issues. She brings a wide breadth and depth of knowledge and experience with respect to the Affordable Care Act, Pension Protection Act, HIPAA, Mental Health Parity Addiction Act and COBRA. Ms. Henry also has experience drafting and administering single employer plans. She has drafted ESOPS, KSOPS, VEBAs and other nonqualified deferred compensation plans.

Ms. Henry graduated from Michigan State University College of Law and has a Master of Law in taxation from New York University School of Law. She is a member and frequent speaking panelist of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law and Employee Benefits Committee. Ms. Henry is also a contributing author and Union Co-Chair Chapter Editor for Chapter 8 of the Employee Benefits Law Treatise and Supplements.

Ms. Henry spent almost 10 years at Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP as an associate and then a partner. Prior to joining that firm, she was attorney in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she worked at Ice Miller, Legal and Business Advisors, and then Alliance Benefit Group.

In 2022, Ms. Henry was appointed by Secretary of Labor Martin J. Walsh to serve on the U.S. Department of Labor's Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans (the "ERISA Advisory Council"). The ERISA Advisory Council advises the Secretary of Labor with respect to carrying out the secretarial functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act and submits recommendations with respect to those functions.

Ms. Henry is admitted to practice law in New York and Indiana.

Education

Legal Education
- Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, Michigan, 1999
  J.D.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Class Rank: Top 5%
  Honors: Dean's List, 1997-1999
  Honors: Harold E. Bledsoe Award; Merit Scholarships
  Honors: Jurisprudence Achievement Awards for Constitutional Law I, Mortgages, and Juvenile Law
  Honors: Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, Clerk of the Exchequer
  Honors: Wolverine Student Bar Association, Treasurer
  Law Review: Michigan University Law Review, Notes and Comments Editor
- New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 2001
  LL.M., Master of Laws
  Major: Taxation
Non Legal Education
- Hofstra University, 1996
  B.A.
  Honors: With Distinction
  Honors: Dean's List and National Dean's List, 1992-1996
  Honors: Golden Key National Honor Society; Psi Chi (National Honor Society in Psychology)
  Honors: Hofstra for Hempstead, Hempstead for Hofstra Scholarship
  Major: Psychology

Current Employment Position(s)

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Partner
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Past Positions

Legal Aid of Central Michigan, Law Clerk Extern
Michigan Attorney General's Office, State Affairs Division, Law Clerk
Michigan State University - Detroit College of Law, Placement Clerk, 1998 - 1999
Ice Miller LLP, Associate, August 1, 2001 - October 1, 2004
Alliance Benefit Group (Formerly Nyhart), Pension Attorney, October 2004 to November 2007
Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, Associate, Partner, February 1, 2008 - November 1, 2017

Languages

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French
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Creole
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Spanish
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Haitian Creole
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Classes and Seminars

Speaker, IFEBP, ABA LEL EBC, and ABA's Joint Committee on Employee Benefits' ERISA Basics conferences

Pro Bono Activities

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans ("IFEBP"), Member

Published Works

Articles

Contributing author and Union Co-chair Chapter Editor, Chapter 8 of the Employee Benefits Law Treatise and Supplements published, ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law and BNA Books

Bar Admissions

Indiana, 2002
New York, 2001

Other Affiliations

American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law ("ABA LEL") Section Committee on Employee Benefits (Member)
Liaison of the Employee Benefits Committee ("EBC") to the Diversity in the Legal Profession Committee
Appointed as the Union Co-chair of the ABA's LEL Section Committee on Employee Benefits' Subcommittee on Regulation of Employee Health Care Benefit Plans, - 2015
Appointed to serve on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans (ERISA Advisory Council), 2022

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