Julie R. Bielecki
Associate
Ms. Bielecki is an associate of the firm and practices in the Health Care Industry Team and Life and Asset Planning Practice Group. She represents health care providers on general corporate and regulatory matters. In the area of general corporate law, she provides counseling with respect to mergers and acquisitions, business operational issues, entity formation, and transactions involving institutional and private equity financings. Ms. Bielecki provides not-for-profit organizations with advice related to formation and dissolution, mergers, and tax-exempt matters. She represents for-profit and not-for-profit employers, multi-employer plans, and educational institutions on employee benefits issues. This representation includes advising clients with respect to qualified and nonqualified employee compensation and benefits, regulatory compliance, and the administration of tax-qualified 401(k) plans and 403(b) plans, defined benefits plans, health and welfare plans, and Section 125 cafeteria plans.
Professional & Community Activities
Ms. Bielecki is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. She is a member of the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys, where she serves as co-chair of the Newly Admitted Women Attorneys Committee, and the Monroe County and New York State Bar Associations. Ms. Bielecki is a member of the Board of Directors of the CURE Childhood Cancer Association, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Volunteer Legal Services Project Micro-Entrepreneur Pro Bono Program. Ms. Bielecki was awarded a Schomburg Fellowship while at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and was recognized for her related efforts in increasing minority enrollment. While in law school, Ms. Bielecki was a member of the Community and Economic Development Clinic. In 2011, Ms. Bielecki was selected as one of Rochester’s Up and Coming Attorneys by The Daily Record.


