Mark Stember concentrates his practice on counseling clients on the tax and related aspects of health and welfare benefits, flexible compensation, fringe benefits, executive compensation, and qualified retirement plans. Mr. Stember has counseled both private and public clients regarding health and welfare plans, cafeteria plans, fringe benefit plans, such as adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, executive split dollar life insurance plans and section 401(k) and other retirement plans. 

Mr. Stember is the leader of the Health and Welfare and Employee Benefits Legal Alert teams. He is a frequent writer and presenter on employee benefits matters. He is also a member of the Employer’s Council for Flexible Compensation Technical Advisory Council, and an Editorial Advisor to the Journal of Pension Benefits.

Mr. Stember is chair of the Health and Welfare Plan Design and Funding subcommittee for the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation. In his role as chair, Mr. Stember has led subcommittee discussions and has presented at the Section of Taxation meetings on various health and welfare matters, including debit cards, COBRA issues, health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), health savings accounts (HSAs) and the effects of the HIPAA privacy and security rules on group health plans. Mr. Stember is also a co-chair of the JCEB Health and Welfare Benefit Plan National Institute that meets annually in Washington, DC. He was also a significant contributor to the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) – HIPAA Privacy and Security Employer Workgroup, and he has authored portions of WEDI’s white paper on HIPAA Issues for Employers. Mr. Stember was also the only law firm presenter at the first Department of Health and Human Services national symposium on the HIPAA privacy rules that was held in 2003.

Mr. Stember was recognized in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 The Best Lawyers in America^® for Employee Benefits Law. He was listed as a 2010 and 2011 Washington D.C. "Super Lawyer" in Employee Benefits Law by SuperLawyers magazine.