Richard C Shea
USA Guide 2024
Senior Statespeople : Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
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Richard Shea chairs Covington’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice. He is regarded as one of the nation’s leading thinkers on employee benefits law and policy. He specializes in guiding clients successfully through high-stakes legislative, rulemaking, litigation, audit, benefit design, and transactional challenges, typically involving hundreds of millions/billions of dollars.
Career
Associate Benefits Tax Counsel, Treasury Department, 1989-91; Judicial Clerk, Hon. Carl McGowan, US Court of Appeals (DC Circuit), 1983-84.
Personal
University of Virginia School of Law, JD, 1983 (Executive Editor, Virginia Law Review); Fulbright Fellow, Universidad Católica del Perú, 1976-77; Amherst College, AB, magna cum laude, 1976.
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Richard Shea assists clients with high-level employee benefits and compensation issues.
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"Richard is well known and highly respected. Richard's experience and wisdom are second to none, and he is the first choice for counsel if you want to do something important and ground-breaking."
"A highly sophisticated, experienced, creative lawyer."
"Richard is well known and highly respected. Richard's experience and wisdom are second to none, and he is the first choice for counsel if you want to do something important and ground-breaking."
"A highly sophisticated, experienced, creative lawyer."
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