Paralegal
p 612.672.8282
f 612.642.8482
elaine.hause@maslon.com
3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Elaine has worked in the qualified plan area since 1976. She has extensive experience in all aspects of the qualification of retirement plans, including review of plan documents and compliance with plan law for plans of companies involved in a merger or acquisition, submission of plan documents for determination letters on their continuation or termination, and submission of methods of self-correction of operational errors. For nine of those years, she has also been a drafting paralegal in the area of estate planning and trusts, with experience drafting wills and trusts with complex and unusual provisions and/or generation-skipping planning, irrevocable insurance trusts and charitable lead and remainder trusts..
Since 2006, Elaine has also worked in the business law area, helping organize new entities and maintaining records for corporations and limited liability companies. She also works with women-owned businesses to help them prepare applications for WBENC certification.
Areas of Practice
- Business & Securities
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Tax Exempt & Charitable Entities
- Estate Planning
- Estate & Gift Tax Planning
- Retirement Benefit Planning
- Wills and Trusts
- Trusts and Estate Planning
Certification
- Certified Legal Assistant, National Association of Legal Assistants, 1989
Presentations
- "Overview of Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System," (co-presenter), American Society for Pension Professionals & Actuaries Benefits Council of the Greater Twin Cities, 2011
