Joseph J. Lazzarotti
Attorney
Jackson Lewis LLP

As a member of Jackson Lewis’ Employee Benefits, Benefits Litigation and Workplace Privacy Practice Group, Joseph Lazzarotti’s practice involves, among other things, counseling companies on compliance, fiduciary, taxation, and administrative matters with respect to retirement and health and welfare plan issues pertaining to ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code and other federal statutes.  He also coordinates the firm’s HIPAA and Workplace Privacy Practice which focuses on the matrix of privacy and data security laws affecting the workplace, including the HIPAA privacy and security regulations and state data security and notification statutes. He speaks and writes regularly on current employee benefits and privacy topics and his work has been published in leading employment journals such as Bender’s Labor and Employment Bulletin and the Privacy and Data Security Law Journal. 

Before entering private practice, Mr. Lazzarotti served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Laura Denvir Stith on the Missouri Court of Appeals.  He graduated with a public accounting degree (B.B.A.), cum laude, from Pace University in 1994, and received his Juris Doctor, with distinction, from the University Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 1999.  Mr. Lazzarotti is a member of the American Bar Association.