Cynthia Marcotte Stamer, Esq.

Cynthia Marcotte Stamer provides “on-demand” and longer-term tactical and operational counseling to businesses, employee benefit plans, their board, leaders, fiduciaries and others on performance management, human resources, vendor and other workforce, compensation and benefits, privacy and data security, board and fiduciary governance and other legal and operational risk management and compliance arising out of their operations and on how to design, administer and defend their management and compliance policies and practices.

A Fellow, American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, American Bar Foundation, Texas Bar Foundation; Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by Texas Board of Legal Specialization; and repeatedly recognized as a “Top” Lawyer in Labor & Employment Law, Employee Benefits Law and Health Care Law, management attorney, coach and author Cynthia Marcotte Stamer helps businesses, governments and their leaders manage their operational performance and risk by managing people, processes and systems, information, risk, and compliance.

Combining her deep and diverse legal and operational knowledge and experience with her strong, client-centric solutions orientation, Ms. Stamer helps businesses, governments, communities and their leaders domestically and abroad to develop, administer, manage, evolve, mitigate, and defend their human resource, vendor and other workforce credentialing, hiring, performance management and discipline, compensation, employee benefits,  privacy and data security, compliance, and risk management, and other key legal and operational management challenges as well as to anticipate, prevent, mitigate, rectify and defend their organizations and themselves against litigation, investigations, disasters, and other disruptions of all types and sizes. Experienced working with clients of all types and sizes, Ms. Stamer is best recognized for her extensive work with public and private health, employee benefit, insurance and financial services, information and other technology and other highly regulated clients. She also advises and represents businesses and governments about public policy and regulatory workforce, benefits, health care and other matters.

Ms. Stamer works with domestic and international businesses and business leaders to manage employment and other staffing and services, employee benefits, compensation and other performance and governance exposures and compliance concerns arising out of daily operations as well as workforce reductions, job restructuring, outsourcing, corporate mergers, acquisitions, sales, bankruptcies, and other significant business and workforce changes.  She helps businesses and others to manage legal and operational risk and improve operations by using creative workforce, risk and insurance, performance and governance, evidentiary and other management and legal practices to implement and administer internal controls, to investigate compliance concerns, and to respond to associated government investigations, lawsuits and complaints.  She also assists businesses to plan for and to respond to workplace disasters, mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies and other business and operational crises.  She also has extensive experience helping domestic and international employers and other services organizations of all types and sizes design, document, implement, and defend individual and mass employment transition, termination and layoff selection procedures and decisions to reduce liability and promote objectives.

Ms. Stamer’s work throughout her career has focused heavily on working with health care and managed care, health and other employee benefit plan, insurance and financial services, and other public and private highly regulated and performance dependent organizations and their technology, data, and other service providers and advisors domestically and internationally with legal and operational program design, contracting and documentation, administration, compliance and risk management, change management, audits, investigations,  and enforcement,.legislative and regulatory affairs and government relations and other concerns.  Nationally recognized for her work and thought leadership on health benefit programs, practices and policies, Ms. Stamer also is widely respected for her deep knowledge and cutting-edge leadership on compensation and employee benefit concerns.  Her longstanding status as a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefits reflects her decades of leadership and expertise in guiding and defending employer and other employee benefit plan sponsors, fiduciaries, insurers, financial services, data and technology and other service providers and even members of Congress and federal and state regulators on health and other employee benefits and insurance, compensation, regulatory affairs and compliance, and other concerns.  As a key focus of this work, she has continuously and extensively worked with domestic and international health plans, their sponsors, fiduciaries, administrators, and insurers; managed care and insurance organizations through the complexities of designing and administering these compensation and benefit programs that promote their workplace goals while managing legal and financial challenges and risks associated with these arrangements and their design and administation.

Along with her extensive legal and operational experience, Ms. Stamer also is recognized for her work as a public and regulatory policy advocate and community leader with a gift for finding pragmatic common ground and building consensus.  Best known for her public policy and community leadership on health care and insurance reform, Ms. Stamer lifelong public policy and community service includes service as a lead consultant to the Government of Bolivia on its pension privitization project, as well as extensive legislative and regulatory reform, advocacy and input  workforce, worker classification, employee benefit, public health and healthcare, social security and other disability and aging in place, education, migration reforms domestically and internationally for  more than 25 years.

Listed in the International Who’s Who of Professionals, Ms. Stamer is widely published author whose insights regularly are quoted in, and publications regularly appear in national, international and local professional, business, education and training and community media and publications.  A popular speaker on human resources, health and other employee benefits, healthcare, insurance and risk management and other management and public policy topics, Ms. Stamer also regularly trains and coaches businesses and government organizations and leaders on board governance and internal controls, employee benefits, compensation and employment and other management and public policy matters.

Ms. Stamer also lends her leadership to a wide range of professional, civic and other organizations and causes.  Best known for her lifelong and pragmatic leadership on workforce, health care, aging, disability and education,

Ms. Stamer also is widely celebrated for her leadership in the American Bar Association (“ABA”) and a multitude of other policy, professional, civic, educational, community and other organizations. Along with her current service as Chair of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section Medicine & Law Committee, incoming Vice Chair of its Life, Health and Disability Insurance, and a member of its SCOPE Committee, and Chair Emeritus of the International Law Section International Employment Law Committee, Ms. Stamer also currently or previously served as a member of the ABA Joint Committee son Employee Benefits (“JCEB”) leadership council, Scribe leading the Department of Health and Human Services annual agency meeting and a representative to other annual agency meetings, speaker, author and faculty; the ABA International Section International Employment Law Committee and International Life Sciences Committee Chair; Vice Chair of both the ABA TIPS Employee Benefits and ABA TIPS Worker’s Compensation Committees; the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group Chair and Risk Management Interest Group Vice Chair; the ABA RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Group Chair and its Welfare Benefit, Fiduciary Responsibility, and Plan Terminations and Transactions Committees Chairs; the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association Vice President and Executive Director; a Southwest Benefits Association Board Member, Treasurer and Continuing Education Committee Chair; a SHRM Consultants National and Region IV Board Chair; a WEB National Board Member and Dallas Chapter President; the National Kidney Foundation of North Texas Board Member and Compliance Chair; the Richardson Development Center (now Warren Center) for Children Early Childhood Intervention Agency Board President; a North Texas United Way Long Range Planning Committee Member; and in many other leadership roles in a broad range of other professional and civic organizations.

Ms. Stamer founded and continues to serve as the Executive Director of the Coalition for Responsible Health Care Policy and its PROJECT COPE: Coalition on Patient Empowerment. A past Counsel Representative for the American Bar Association (ABA) Joint Committee on Employee Benefits and former Chair of the ABA RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Arrangements Group,  the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Group; the ABA International Section Life Sciences and Health Committee; and the ABA Intellectual Property Section Law Firm Practice Management Committee, Co-Chair of the RPTE Fiduciary Responsibility Committee and on the RPTE Membership Committee, Vice Chair of the ABA Torts & Insurance Practice Section Employee Benefit Committee, as a technical advisor to the National Physicians’ Council on Health Care Policy, on the Editorial Advisory Board of InsuranceThoughtleadership,com HR.com, and as a contributing author and on the editorial advisory boards and faculties of many other publications, symposia and other events, on the United Way of Dallas Long Range Planning Committee, EO Coordinator of the Gulf States TEGE Council, President of the Richardson Development Center for Children, Board Audit Committee Chair of the National Kidney Foundation of North Texas, a Founding Board Member and President of the Alliance for Healthcare Excellence and the creator of its Patient Empowerment and Healthcare Heroes Awards and Programs, the Texas Association of Business Dallas, Regional, and State Boards and BACPAC committees, the National, Regional and Dallas Chapter Boards of the WEB Network of Benefit Professionals,  on the SHRM National Consultants Forum Board,  its Region IV Chair and the Legislative Chair of its affiliate, the Dallas Human Resources Management, the Continuing Education Chair and Treasurer of the Southwest Benefits Association, and in a host of other professional and civic organizations.

Along with these activities, Ms. Stamer also is recognized as a practical solutions provider, entertaining and informative speaker, and influential thought leader and advocate from her multitude of highly regarded publications and presentations,  testimony and other input shared with Congress and federal and state regulators, and media interviews on health and other benefits, compensation, and other workforce, health care, insurance, data privacy and security, leadership and performance management, public service and other concerns.

For information about arranging for Ms. Stamer to provide services, speak, or share other resources, contact Ms. Stamer via telephone at (214) 452-8279 or via e-mail here.