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Gregory L. (Greg) Ash
Partner

Overland Park

913.327.5115

Elizabeth Felker
Partner

St. Louis

314.333.3907

Laura L. Fischer
Partner

Denver

303.592.8365

As the leader of the firm’s Employee Benefits Practice Group, Greg Ash helps his clients maximize the value and minimize the risks inherent in their benefit plans. With more than 30 years of experience, Greg translates complicated legal issues under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code into meaningful decision points for employers. He forecasts risk and identifies opportunities to help his clients meet their business objectives.

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Elizabeth Felker is a corporate and transactional attorney whose practice focuses on business transactions, employee benefits, and executive and deferred compensation. As a member of the firm’s Business Transactions Practice Group, Liz draws on her experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate formations and reorganizations, and public and private securities offerings to provide effective, pragmatic solutions to clients’ transactional and other business-related needs.

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Laura Fischer dedicates herself to delivering a high level of service to her clients as an experienced employee benefits attorney. She provides guidance to various employee benefit plan sponsors regarding an array of benefit plan matters. Laura is equipped to advise plan sponsors on a variety of compliance issues, including ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, and various health care reform mandates. With her counsel, clients can more adeptly navigate the complex and ever-changing regulations regarding the administration and distribution of employee benefits.

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Kerry Hodges
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5454

Daniel (Dan) Lacomis
Partner

Denver

303.592.8316

Beth Miller
Of Counsel

Overland Park

913.327.5124

Kerry Hodges focuses his practice on employee benefits, corporate, tax, and labor law. Primarily serving clients in the construction industry, Kerry devotes a substantial part of his practice to representing trustees of Taft-Hartley multiemployer plans, including pension, defined contribution, health and welfare, vacation, and apprenticeship trust funds. He advises trustees in virtually all facets of plan operations, helping them fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities in a complex, ever-shifting legal environment. He also utilizes the firm’s cross-discipline experience to provide clients access to qualified attorneys in other practice groups relevant to their needs—matching legal strategy to each client’s unique objectives.

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Dan Lacomis works closely with his clients to develop the most effective strategies to manage all aspects of employee benefits, from helping clients design and structure retirement, welfare benefit, and executive compensation plans to representing them in IRS and U.S. Department of Labor audits. In his broad employee benefits practice, Dan represents multiemployer / Taft-Hartley, governmental, tax-exempt, and private plan sponsors.

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Beth Miller is a member of the Employee Benefits team. She helps clients by identifying practical solutions to a wide variety of legal matters in the areas of employer-sponsored retirement plans, executive compensation, fiduciary obligations, and advisory services.

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Natalie Miller
Of Counsel

Overland Park

913.327.5187

Stephen (Steve) Rickles
Partner

Denver

303.592.8308

Ravi Sundara
Partner

St. Louis

314.333.3912

Natalie Miller advises benefit plan providers, administrators, and employers on matters related to ERISA and the tax code that impact employer sponsored benefit plans. She proactively helps clients navigate the complex regulatory requirements governing employee benefit plans by partnering on an array of matters including day-to-day plan administration, plan governance, and correction of operational issues. Natalie also regularly assists clients in drafting governing plan documents and communications, and negotiating service provider agreements.

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Steve Rickles practices in the employee benefits, estate planning, and business and tax exempt organizations areas.

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Ravi Sundara assists mainly tax-exempt organizations with corporate and tax matters, regulatory compliance, deferred and direct charitable giving, and employee benefits.

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John L. Utz
Partner

Overland Park

913.685.7978

Julia M. Vander Weele
Partner

Kansas City

816.292.8182

Stephen Weinstein
Of Counsel

Denver

303.592.8304

John Utz utilizes a deep understanding of his clients’ business models to build and implement effective and legally compliant employee benefit programs and executive compensation packages. He provides services critical to success, profitability, and employee recruitment and retention. He has vast experience with more than four decades handling matters affecting pension, profit sharing, and 401(k) plans, health and welfare programs, as well as ESOPs, Section 403(b) tax-sheltered annuities, Section 457 plans, stock options, nonqualified deferred compensation, incentive pay, and severance pay.

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Julia Vander Weele is an employee benefits attorney who also serves as Office Managing Partner of the Spencer Fane Kansas City office.

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Stephen A. Weinstein knows how important employee benefits are when it comes to attracting and retaining good employees. He leverages his experience in this area to make sure that these benefit programs actually do what they are designed to do – contribute to the long-term success of the client and its employees.

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