Eligibility
You are eligible for Signature Benefits if you are classified by O’Melveny as a common-law employee who is an attorney or full-time business professional employee or a Partner as defined by the terms of the O’Melveny Partnership Agreement.
An “attorney,” for benefits purposes, is any one of the following:
- Associate
- Visiting Associate
- Counsel
- Staff Attorney
This includes attorneys on reduced schedules, but does not include summer associates, law clerks and part-time attorneys who do not meet the hours requirement:
- 21 hours per week in New York
- 22.5 hours per week in all other U.S. locations.
Individuals who are not classified as common-law employees, at the firm’s discretion, including but not limited to independent contractors, non-employee consultants and employees of any entity other than O’Melveny, are not eligible for Signature Benefits.
All references to “employees” in this site include attorneys and business professionals unless otherwise noted.
Dependent Eligibility
You may also enroll your eligible dependents in many of the Signature Benefits plans. Your eligible dependents are:
- Your legal spouse or domestic partner
- Your dependent children until age 26
- Your unmarried children of any age who are totally disabled and dependent upon you for support.
A domestic partner is a person of either gender with whom you have a committed relationship, similar to a marriage. If you would like to enroll a domestic partner, please contact the Benefits Department for details regarding eligibility requirements and a domestic partner affidavit.
You will be required to submit medical certification of disability to continue coverage past your child’s 26th birthday. Additionally, you may be required to provide a certificate of tax dependency. You will also be required to submit Social Security numbers for all dependents.
When to Enroll
Newly Eligible Employees
When you join the firm or become benefits eligible, one of the first things you will be asked to do is complete your benefits enrollment online through Workday, the firm’s global HR system. Follow these steps:
- Review your enrollment materials, including this guide, for valuable information
- Complete your enrollment within 31 days of your hire date
The benefits you elect when you first enroll remain in effect until December 31. You may not make changes during the year unless you experience a qualifying life event, outlined on this page.
Default Coverage
If you do not make your benefit selections in Workday within 31 days of becoming eligible, you and your dependents will not have medical, dental or vision coverage and you will not be allowed to change your enrollment until the next Open Enrollment (unless you have a qualifying life event).
You will be enrolled in the following Firm paid benefits:
- Basic Life Insurance equal to one times your covered salary
- Basic AD&D Coverage equal to one times your covered salary
- The 50% Long-Term Disability Plan
Lateral Partners
If you join the firm as a lateral Partner, you will receive a Partner benefits packet. You must complete your benefits enrollment online through Workday within 31 days of your partnership date for your benefits to take effect on your partnership date. If you do not enroll by the deadline, you and your dependents, if any, will not be covered and you will not be allowed to change your enrollment until the next Open Enrollment (unless you have a qualified change in status as defined below).
Newly Eligible Partners
Coverage becomes effective the day you become a Partner. At that time, you will receive a Partner benefits packet. As a new Partner, you will need to make benefit elections in Workday. You may purchase or waive any or all benefits offered, except Long-Term Disability.
Please complete your elections within 31 days of becoming a new Partner, even if you want to continue the elections you had as an Associate or Counsel. If you do not re-enter your elections, you will retain the same benefit elections you had while an Associate or Counsel with the firm, except for reimbursement accounts.
Open Enrollment
Each year during Open Enrollment, you should review and, if necessary, make changes to your Signature Benefits. If you do not review and confirm your benefits, they will automatically rollover with the exception of Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account elections.
During Open Enrollment you may:
- Change your Medical, Dental, and Vision plan elections
- Add or remove dependents
- Enroll in, increase or decrease contributions to the Health Care or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Enroll in a Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Apply for additional Life and Accidental Death Insurance for yourself and your eligible dependents or decrease your coverage
- Change your Long-Term Disability election
Any changes you make during Open Enrollment will take effect January 1 and remain in effect until December 31 of that same plan year, unless you experience a qualifying life event (see below for more detail).
Dual Enrollment
New Hires are required to complete enrollment for the remainder of 2025 as well as Open Enrollment for 2026 benefits. Use the 2025 Digital Benefits Guide or download the 2025 Employee Benefits Guide PDF to learn about your options, then log into Workday and complete your enrollment for 2025 benefits. Once you complete enrollment for 2025, then you can complete your Open Enrollment for 2026 benefits.
Qualifying Life Events
The benefits and coverage levels you elect when you first enroll, and during subsequent Open Enrollments, remain in effect throughout the plan year (January 1 to December 31).
You may not make changes to your enrollment unless you experience a Qualifying Life Event (QLE) as defined by the IRS and notify the Benefits Department within 31 days of the qualifying event. If gaining CHIPRA, Medicaid, or subsidy status, you have 60 days to notify the Benefits Department.
If you have a qualifying life event and want to change your benefits election, you must notify the Benefits Department and submit allowable changes within 31 days of the qualifying event (60 days for CHIPRA / Medicaid / subsidy). Thereafter, you may not make changes to your benefits election until the next Open Enrollment Period. Any changes you make must be consistent with your qualifying life event. For example, if you and your spouse have a baby, you may add the child to your medical plan, but you may not drop the spouse from the plan.
Comomon Qualifying Life Events include:
- Marriage
- Divorce or legal separation
- Birth, adoption, or placement for adoption of a child
- Death of a spouse, or domestic partner or child
- A child reaches the maximum age for coverage
- Any change in the employment status of you or your spouse or domestic partner that results in a change in benefits eligibility, such as start or end of employment, a change in number of hours worked, or start or end of an unpaid leave of absence
- Moving outside your medical plan service area
- You, your spouse or domestic partner or dependent children become entitled to Medicare or Medicaid
How to Enroll
Access Workday
Click the button below or access through the Essential Links tab, under Daily Tasks on ommni.
Sign In
Single Sign-On will occur or sign in to Workday using your O’Melveny username and password.
Go to Inbox
New Hires only: Click into your inbox to access the 2025 Open Enrollment Change task.
All other Employees: Skip to Step 4.
When Benefits Begin
Coverage begins on the Date of hire for all eligible partners, attorneys and business professionals.
When Coverage Ends
Your coverage under Signature Benefits ends the last day of the month in which you are no longer eligible, with the exception of disability, HCFSA, and DCFSA; which terminate on the date you are no longer eligible.
Additionally, dependent coverage ends on the last day of the month in which a dependent ceases to meet the eligibility requirements outlined above.
You or your spouse or dependent children must notify the Benefits Department within 60 days of a divorce or legal separation or if a dependent child ceases to meet the eligibility requirements. Failure to do so will result in a loss of COBRA eligibility.
COBRA information will be provided upon eligibility.
COBRA
You may elect to continue medical, dental, and vision coverage for yourself and/or your spouse or dependent children under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) for up to 18 months, depending on the situation. You or your spouse or dependent children may be able to elect COBRA if group health care coverage is lost due to:
- A reduction in your hours or your termination of employment (for reasons other than gross misconduct)
- Divorce or legal separation
- A dependent child no longer meeting the eligibility requirements for coverage as outlined above
- Your death
Benefits Support
O'Melveny understands that you may have questions about enrollment or your benefits throughout the year.
Let our Benefits Team help.
We provide year-round support for questions about your Signature Benefits and our Wellbeing programs. Contact us at benefitsteam@omm.com.
NFP Benefits Concierge
O’Melveny employees also have access to a dedicated Benefits Concierge representative and Claims Advocacy Services. Consider them your personal advocates and can help you navigate and understand the O’Melveny Signature Benefits as well as work directly with the insurance companies on your behalf. You can reach a Benefits Concierge representative at DBbenadmin@nfp.com, and the Claims Advocacy team can be reached at CSclaims@nfp.com.
This Digital Benefits Guide is intended to highlight available benefits and should be relied upon to fully determine coverage. The benefits plan may not cover all health care expenses. More complete descriptions of benefits and the terms under which they are provided are contained in the Certificate of Coverage that you will receive upon request. If this Digital Benefits Guide conflicts in any way with the policy issued by the employer, the policy shall prevail.