Overview
Hillary’s practice focuses on ERISA and employee benefits work for retirement plans, health plans, and employer plan sponsors.
In her retirement plan practice, Hillary mainly works with qualified plans, including both defined benefit and defined contribution plans and multiemployer and single employer plans, and includes a range of work on plan design issues, investments of plan assets, ERISA fiduciary duties, assisting with corrections under the IRS and DOL programs, and general compliance advice.
Hillary’s health and welfare practice includes working with clients on compliance with COBRA, HIPAA, the ACA, and provisions of ERISA and the Code that impact health and welfare arrangements. She also counsels clients on designing, drafting, and implementing group health plans including cafeteria plans, health savings accounts (“HSAs”), flexible spending accounts (“FSAs”), health reimbursement arrangements (“HRAs”), and voluntary employees’ beneficiary associations (“VEBAs”).
In addition to Hillary’s traditional ERISA/employee benefits compliance practice, she also has experience counseling clients on benefits and executive compensation issues in corporate transactions, including those that involve Sections 280G and 4999 of the Code relating to golden parachute payments as well as issues under Section 409A.
During law school, Hillary was awarded a Peggy Browning Fellowship and served as the Senior Executive Editor for The George Washington Law Review.
Credentials
Education
The George Washington University Law School, JD, with honors, 2017
Denison University, BA, 2014
Admissions
District of Columbia
Maryland
Prior Experience
Crowell & Moring LLP
Slevin & Hart, P.C.
