Elizabeth Manzo Esq.

Elizabeth Engert Manzo is a shareholder in the law firm of Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. in Westfield, New Jersey. She practices in the firm’s trusts and estates and employee benefits groups. The law firm serves as legal counsel to over 70 collectively bargained multiemployer benefit funds, primarily in the construction trades. As legal counsel to the funds, Manzo has advised on matters involving plan qualification and design, fiduciary responsibility, prohibited transactions, Department of Labor/Internal Revenue Service (DOL/IRS) reporting and compliance issues, as well as statutory and regulatory developments affecting employee benefit plans. She also serves, by appointment from a national trade association, as independent professional trustee, on the side of management, on several large multi employer trust funds. Manzo is a frequent author and lecturer. She is admitted to practice before the New Jersey Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Manzo received her B.A. degree from Rutgers College, as a Henry Rutgers Scholar, and received her juris doctorate degree from Seton Hall University School of Law.