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Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP Partner Presents Legislative Update

 

 

On May 5, 2021 Katherine Hesse, a partner at Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP, was among the presenters for Segal Marco Advisors’ two-day virtual client conference. Ms. Hesse, who presented in the afternoon of the second day, presented a legislative update with Julia Zuckerman of Segal. The session was moderated by Julia Regan of Segal Marco Advisors. Ms. Zuckerman began the 30-minute session discussing multiemployer pension legislation and the bipartisan support for SECURE 2.0. Ms. Hesse then discusses the American Rescue Plan in relation to state and local governments, as well as in relation to COBRA subsidies and selected healthcare legislation. She also describes the regulatory developments pertaining to the DOL rules on ESG investing, proxy voting and cybersecurity.

 

Katherine Hesse is one of the founding partners of Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP. Ms. Hesse concentrates her practice primarily in labor and employment and employee benefits law serving as counsel to individuals, business, government, and tax-exempt organizations including hospitals, colleges, churches, and major private and public retirement and health plans. She has litigated numerous employment and benefits cases before the state and federal trial and appellate courts, administrative agencies and arbitrators. She is also an active practitioner in all forms of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, conciliation, fact finding and various forms of arbitration.

 

Ms. Hesse was a recipient of the Cushing-Gavin Award for excellence in providing management labor relations legal counsel. She also heads the team of attorneys that was named the only firm in New England and one of only eleven in the United States on the special ERISA fiduciary litigation panel for one of the world’s largest insurance companies. Ms. Hesse is a graduate of Smith College and the Boston University School of Law. She is admitted to the Bars of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.

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