Darcy Hitesman

Darcy L. Hitesman is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on employee benefits law, with more than 35 years of concentrated expertise at the intersection of the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, and employersponsored health and welfare plan compliance. Her practice is exclusively devoted to employee benefits — a depth of specialization that distinguishes her counsel from generalist practitioners and positions her as the definitive resource for complex, high-stakes plan design and regulatory compliance matters. Ms. Hitesman founded HitesmanLaw, P.A. in 2001 following more than thirteen years in the large law firm environment, where she developed her expertise counseling both public-sector and private-sector clients on Internal Revenue Code compliance, ERISA fiduciary obligations, HIPAA privacy and portability requirements, FMLA administration, COBRA continuation coverage, and state insurance law. Her firm reflects a deliberate philosophy: that clients navigating the most technically demanding areas of employee benefits law deserve counsel whose sole professional focus is that law. ■ ■ PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW Her client base spans the full spectrum of organizational complexity — large private employers, state and local governmental entities, public school districts, nonprofit organizations, insurance carriers, third-party administrators, and plan service providers nationwide. She is regularly engaged by general counsel and chief human resources officers confronting benefit plan design questions, IRS and DOL regulatory matters, and enterprise-wide compliance restructuring.