Kurt Lawson

Practice Areas

Kurt Lawson advises clients on employment, executive compensation and employee benefits, and share incentives, health, investment funds, pensions, private equity, and tax matters.

Career

Kurt works with employers, insurance companies, banks, PE funds, and individuals on a wide range of benefits matters, including cash balance and other tax-qualified plans, 403(b) and other plans for tax-exempt employers, health reform and other welfare plan challenges, executive compensation, and fiduciary and prohibited transaction issues.

He also tackles issues that have drawn attention only recently, such as executive compensation in partnerships and LLCs; alternative investments by pension plans and IRAs; special health reform issues involving employers, insurance companies, religious institutions, and universities; employee classification issues for tax, minimum wage, and other purposes; and funding relief for multiple-employer plans.

From 1989 through 1993, Kurt served in the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Benefits Tax Counsel.

Professional Memberships

Chair, Subcommittee on Employee Benefits, Employment Taxes Committee, Section of Taxation, American Bar Association; Member, ABA Working Group on Access to Health Care

Personal

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, Order of the Coif, Virginia Law Review, 1985; M.A., Yale University, 1982; B.A., Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Pierson College master's award, 1982