Ms. Slaught is senior counsel in the San Francisco office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and has been practicing in the employee benefits field since 1996. She advises trustees, service providers, and administrators of governmental and multiemployer benefit funds on all issues including pension plan design and administration, investment of plan assets, the qualification of state domestic relations orders, drafting plan documents and general compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, federal labor law, and other laws affecting pension funds. She also advises companies on both qualified retirement plan and welfare plan design and technical compliance. She also has substantial experience representing welfare plans and ERISA plan administrators in all aspects of litigation arising from disputes over welfare benefits and fiduciary claims. She has represented both employer and Fund interests in arbitrations over plan benefits.  She has also represented employer trustees in federal court when sued for breach of fiduciary duty.

Ms. Slaught is senior counsel in the San Francisco office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and has been practicing in the employee benefits field since 1996. She advises trustees, service providers, and administrators of governmental and multiemployer benefit funds on all issues including pension plan design and administration, investment of plan assets, the qualification of state domestic relations orders, drafting plan documents and general compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, federal labor law, and other laws affecting pension funds. She also advises companies on both qualified retirement plan and welfare plan design and technical compliance. She also has substantial experience representing welfare plans and ERISA plan administrators in all aspects of litigation arising from disputes over welfare benefits and fiduciary claims. She has represented both employer and Fund interests in arbitrations over plan benefits.  She has also represented employer trustees in federal court when sued for breach of fiduciary duty.