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Seyfarth Shaw LLP is distinguished for representing major insurers, healthcare providers and financial services companies, and is currently expanding into the East Coast. Working closely with employee benefits department, the team deals with complex ERISA cases often involving 401 (k) fees class actions, putative actions and employee benefits disputes. The team is co-led by Kathleen Cahill Slaught in San Francisco, a noted specialist in high stakes ERISA litigation with an impressive client portfolio. The other co-lead is Ian Morrison, who operates from the Chicago office, and represents employers, employee benefit plans and fiduciaries across the full spectrum of litigation. Also, in the Chicago office, Ada Dolph specializes in 401(k) fee, retiree medical and “stock drop” class action litigation alongside Sam Schwartz-Fenwick, who focuses on benefits-related litigation particularly as it relates to gender equity. In New York, Amanda Genovese, who joined the firm from Troutman Pepper as a partner in 2023, defends major companies involving ERISA benefit and fiduciary claims as well as advising clients on the Mental Health Parity Act and Medicaid programs.  

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Kathleen Cahill Slaught

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP; lead trial attorney for class action and single-plaintiff ERISA litigation and arbitration matters; lead trial attorney for large healthcare fraud litigation matter; lead attorney representing Employer Trustees in Taft-Hartley litigation and arbitration matters.

Ian Morrison

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ian Morrison has extensive experience representing employers, employee benefit plans, and fiduciaries in a broad range of ERISA and employee benefits litigation. He has successfully handled numerous high-stakes ERISA class actions for Fortune 500 companies, complex individual claims, and well as complex nationwide portfolios of litigation. Many of his ERISA cases have resulted in leading and often-cited court decisions. Ian has handled a wide range of ERISA matter through trial and appeal including individual pension and welfare benefit claims, severance pay claims, executive compensation disputes, class action claims regarding plan design, and class action claims regarding plan administration and fiduciary responsibility.

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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Kathleen Cahill Slaught, Ian Morrison

Other key lawyers

Ada Dolph, Sam Schwartz-Fenwick, Amanda Genovese