Representative Experience
Qualified retirement plans including 401(k) plans, ESOPs and defined benefit pension plans

Plan administration and tax consequences

Non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements, stock options, SERPs and other forms of executive compensation

Health and welfare arrangements, such as cafeteria plans, medical and life insurance programs and the COBRA rules

Plan design and administration

Related tax and ERISA issues

Publications and Presentations
Frequent speaker and author on employee benefit topics

Published author in the Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance

Co-author, 401(k) reference manual used by the Employee Benefits Institute of America in its national seminars

Memberships and Activities
Oregon State Bar Association

Washington State Bar Association

Western Pension and Benefits Conference

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Employee Benefits Law by Woodward/White

Named one of “Portland’s Best Lawyers” in employee benefits law by Portland Monthly, 2006

Selected to "Oregon Super Lawyers," Law & Politics, 2006, 2007

Education
J.D., cum laude, Cornell School of Law

B.A. in English, Brigham Young University