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Jake is with the Professional Services Practice at Aon in Washington, DC and focuses on designing and implementing competitive and modern employee and partner benefits programs for professional service firms operating in the United States.
Over his career, Jake has developed specialized knowledge of large law firm and consulting firm organizational structures, talent needs, and risk appetites. He commonly advises clients on projects such as benefits harmonization (between geographies or after M&A), evaluating or re-evaluating supplier relationships (TPAs, insurers, etc.), and program redesigns or enhancements aimed at maintaining competitiveness in today’s dynamic talent market.
His articles cover benchmarking and trends in benefits and talent management at professional service firms, including emerging solutions and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I).
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Health & Benefits / Law Firms / Consulting Firms
Jake is with the Professional Services Practice at Aon in Washington, DC and focuses on designing and implementing competitive and modern employee and partner benefits programs for professional service firms operating in the United States.
Over his career, Jake has developed specialized knowledge of large law firm and consulting firm organizational structures, talent needs, and risk appetites. He commonly advises clients on projects such as benefits harmonization (between geographies or after M&A), evaluating or re-evaluating supplier relationships (TPAs, insurers, etc.), and program redesigns or enhancements aimed at maintaining competitiveness in today’s dynamic talent market.
His articles cover benchmarking and trends in benefits and talent management at professional service firms, including emerging solutions and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I).
How U.S. Professional Service Firms are De-Risking Their Self-Insured Health Plans
December 2024 - As healthcare costs continue to rise and become less predictable, benefits and finance leaders at U.S. professional service firms are increasingly looking to fine-tune risk transfer strategies for their self-insured medical...
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Q2 2024: Key Employee and Partner Human Capital Topics and Trends for U.S. Law Firms
June 2024 - The Professional Services Practice at Aon recently deployed a pulse survey of our law firm clients to gather data about how large law firms are thinking about a variety of human capital topics.
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Survey Results: Key Employee and Partner Benefit Topics and Trends for U.S. Law Firms
February 2024 - In late 2023, the Professional Services Practice at Aon deployed a pulse survey designed to gather data about how large law firms are thinking about a variety of employee and partner benefit topics.
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The CIOs and CISOs Are Not Alright
November 2023 - Information security professionals are facing unprecedented levels of stress due to a sustained increase in cybercrime, a shortage of qualified information security personnel, regulatory actions and AI-driven changes to...
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Weight Loss Drugs: A Point of View for Professional Service Firms in the U.S., UK, and Canada
October 2023 - A drug class known as GLP-1 receptor agonists or simply “GLP-1s” (e.g., Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic) has been used for several years to help control type 2 diabetes. Weight loss associated with its use was considered nothing more...
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How Professional Service Firms Can Help Their Employees and Partners Navigate Long-Term Care
May 2023 - Long-term care (LTC) services are expensive and many Americans don’t have enough savings to cover the growing costs. Some U.S. states are responding by establishing payroll taxes to fund public benefit pools.
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Law Firms Outspend Other Professional Service Employers in Offering Similar Healthcare Benefits
January 2023 - After two years of significant revenue growth, many law firms are evaluating strategies to balance an economic slowdown with an increase in compensation and other expenses.
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How Professional Service Firms are Returning to Working, Traveling, and Convening in North America
November 2022 - More than 24 months after COVID-19 closed offices around the world and suspended almost all business travel, we are starting to witness a sustained and meaningful return to office-based work and other pre-pandemic professional...
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Work/Life Benefits and Wellbeing at U.S. Law Firms Webinar Recording
September 2022 - On September 15, 2022, the Professional Services Practice at Aon joined forces with Krill Strategies to host the Work/Life Benefits and Wellbeing at U.S. Law Firms webinar.
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Virtual-First Health Plans to Further DE&I, Expand Choice and Promote Efficiency
August 2022 - In our September 2021 article “Ensuring your firm’s DE&I strategy includes employee benefits”, we explored how professional service firms might go about weaving organizational DE&I commitments into their employee benefit plans....
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Major U.S. Law Firms Invest in Non-Traditional Benefits for Attorneys and Staff
May 2022 - In February 2022, the Professional Services Practice at Aon’s Health and Benefits team conducted a survey focused on four key areas: Time Away, Family Building, Wellbeing Programs, and the Future of Work.
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Can Law Firms Afford Not to Invest in Employee Wellbeing?
October 2021 - As demonstrated by the ABA Wellbeing Pledge, firms are taking action to support a healthy workplace and the mental health of their employees. The COVID-19 pandemic has exponentially increased levels of employee stress, burnout...
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Ensuring your firm’s DE&I strategy includes employee benefits
September 2021 - The global pandemic and the wide ranging social justice protests of 2020 (such as Black Lives Matter) have highlighted material disparities (as well as instances of institutionalized racism) in healthcare access, treatment,...
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Staying connected: how can professional service firms amplify employee benefits programs while working remotely?
May 2021 - Since the outbreak of COVID-19, global immobility and social distancing measures have triggered a radical shift in working practices for professional service firms. Remote working has enabled firms to remain operational, but...
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