Amy M. Christen

Member


Amy M. Christen is the leader of Dykema's Employee Benefits Practice. She assists clients with a full range of employee benefit matters, including compliance and design of qualified retirement plans, health and other welfare plans and fringe benefit plans.

As leader of the practice group’s Health and Welfare Team, Amy assists clients develop strategies to comply with the myriad of complex laws impacting employer sponsored group health plans, including the Affordable Care Act, COBRA and HIPAA Privacy and Security laws. Amy also advises clients on employee benefit concerns in mergers and acquisitions and ERISA litigation. 

“Amy is knowledgeable and quick to respond,” clients told Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Her significant experience in health plans, the formation of qualified employee benefit plans, welfare benefit schemes and issues relating to ERISA have earned her the recognition as a top employee benefits & executive compensation attorney in Michigan.

Before joining Dykema, Amy practiced employee benefits law for a boutique benefits firm and prior to that, a major Detroit-based law firm. She also clerked for the Ohio Court of Appeals.

...a very smart and detailed lawyer, who is easy to work with and very responsive.
Client feedback, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business
    • University of Toledo, J.D., magna cum laude
    • Ohio State University, B.A.
  • Bar Admissions

    • Michigan, 1995
    • Named a Michigan Leading Lawyer in Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation by Chambers USA, 2012-2023

    • Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2013-2024

    • Recognized in Michigan Super Lawyers® for Employee Benefits, 2018 and 2019

    • Named a Top Lawyer by dbusiness Magazine for Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2015-2017
    • Named a Michigan Leading Lawyer in the area of Employee Benefits Law by the Leading Lawyers Network, 2014-2017

    • American Bar Association
    • Michigan State Bar Association, Labor and Taxation Sections
    • Oakland County Bar Association

Latest News and Insights

Legal Alerts11.2.23

IRS Announces 2024 Limits for Qualified Retirement Plans

The IRS recently issued Notice 2023-75 announcing the annual cost-of-living adjustments applicable…

Read More

Legal Alerts8.30.23

IRS Offers Transition Relief for the Implementation of the Secure 2.0 Roth Catch-Up Requirement

On Friday, August 25, 2023, the IRS issued Notice 2023-62 (the “Notice”) which provides a two-year…

Read More

Press Releases8.17.23

194 Dykema Lawyers Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 and Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch”

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that 194 of its attorneys, in multiple practice…

Read More