William R. Hineline

Bill provides general business counsel to clients primarily in the area of employee benefits, including benefit administration matters, selection of plan types and representation before the IRS, DOL and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). He has a strong focus on the health care industry as well as family-owned and other closely held businesses. Bill also provides counsel for business clients on various corporate and business matters, employment agreements and contract issues. For those same clients, he has served as counsel on family ownership dynamics and succession planning issues. 

Bill is past president of Law Weathers, his former firm, and past chair of that firm’s health care law practice. For more than 45 years, Bill was one of the foundational business builders at Law Weathers, growing the health care law practice from the ground up and introducing marketing and client service activities before it became common among law firms.