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Jason N. Sheffield
Associate
The Proscenium
jsheffield@mcguirewoods.com1170 Peachtree Street N.E., Suite 2100 Atlanta, Georgia 30309-7649 F: 404.443.5758 |
Mr. Sheffield's diverse employee benefits legal and consulting background includes several years of ERISA litigation and liability analysis, pension, and health and welfare plan design consulting, as well as regulatory compliance consulting.
He was previously a senior legal consultant and litigation analyst, specializing in issues related to fiduciary investment governance, prudence, and accountability. He has performed extensive data sampling, analysis, and client consulting related to federal litigation trends, and the associated plan sponsor and fiduciary liabilities arising from long-term disability benefit terminations and other individual or class-based employee benefits terminations. He is a contributing editor for Pension Governance, LLC, and is director of legal content and general counsel for www.PensionLitigationData.com.
- Associate, Taylor, Busch, Slipakoff & Duma, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007-2008
- Senior Legal Consultant & Litigation Analyst, The Michel-Shaked Group, LLC, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005-2007
- ERISA Litigation Study, PensionLitigationData.com, April 15, 2009
- "Congress Approves Temporary Relief for Defined Benefit Funding, Announces Technical Amendments to the PPA and Clarifies Effective Date For the Mental Health Parity Act," McGuireWoods News, December 29, 2009
- "IRS Expands Relief for Section 409A Operational Failures," McGuireWoods News, January 16, 2009
- "ERISA Litigation, Cumulative National Trends Analysis for 2005 & 2006," The Michel-Shaked Group, LLC, and Pension Governance, LLC, January 2007
- American Bar Association, Joint Committee on Employee Benefits
- State Bar of Georgia
- American Association for Justice
- Stonewall Bar Association
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EDUCATION Western New England College, School of Law, Springfield, Massachusetts, J.D., 2006 Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, B.A. Political Science, magna cum laude, 2003 ADMITTED Georgia 2007 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia 2007 PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta, Georgia |

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