Grand Canyon University - Ken Blanchard College of Business

Faculty Biographies

George F. Cicotte founded the Cicotte Law Firm in 2002. Mr. Cicotte's entire career has focused on employee benefits, beginning in 1989 as a pension actuary and, since 1995, as an ERISA attorney. He currently serves clients in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. Before establishing the Cicotte Law Firm, Mr. Cicotte practiced law in Washington, D.C. with Covington & Burling. His broad employee benefits practice involves such diverse issues as health and retirement plan design, representing employers in labor relations matters, federal taxation, assisting health plans with HIPAA, COBRA and all other requirements and advising on a myriad of employment and fiduciary responsibility issues. In addition to counseling with clients on compliance and transactional matters he frequently defends ERISA lawsuits. Mr. Cicotte has authored and co-written several articles and publications including the employee benefits chapter of The Contingent Workforce - Business and Legal Strategies, published by Law Journal Press. He has spoken throughout the country for entities including the Society for Human Resource Management, the Western Pension and Benefits Conference, The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and the Zero Alpha Group. Mr. Cicotte earned his J.D. from Brigham Young University and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Washington, Colorado and Washington, D.C. bar.

Mr. Cicotte is scheduled to teach the following 2009-Early 2010 public programs:

The Certificate in Employee Benefits LawSM Seminar

  • Newport Beach, July 29, 2009 (Block II)
  • Newport Beach, July 30-31, 2009 (Block III)
  • Las Vegas, September 24-25, 2009 (Block III)
  • Newport Beach, March 10, 2010 (Block II)
  • Newport Beach, March 11-12, 2010 (Block III)




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