Ms Kathleen Cahill Slaught > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Kathleen Cahill Slaught

Work Department
Labor & Employment Department, ERISA & Employee Benefits Litigation Practice Group; Employee Benefits Department, Welfare Benefits Practice.Labor & Employment Department, ERISA & Employee Benefits Litigation Practice Group; Employee Benefits Department, Welfare Benefits Practice.
Position
Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP; lead trial attorney for class action and single-plaintiff ERISA litigation and arbitration matters; lead trial attorney for large healthcare fraud litigation matter; lead attorney representing Employer Trustees in Taft-Hartley litigation and arbitration matters.
Career
Co-Chair of the ERISA Litigation Practice Group; Board Member of the Seyfarth’s Charitable Foundation; Coach for Associate Coaching Program; Supervisor for Pro Bono matters; Member of the Women’s Affinity Group, Past member of the Lawyer Development Committee, and Office Marketing Committee; Past Chair of the San Francisco Office’s Charitable Foundation Committee, past Chair of the San Francisco Office’s Paralegal and Case Assistant Committee, and past co-Chair of the San Francisco Office’s hiring committee; Partner and mentor for Seyfarth’s Summer Fellow Program; Regular contributor to ERISA & Employee Benefits Litigation Blog and Health Care Reform Management Alerts regarding the Affordable Care Act; Joined the Firm in 1996, Partner in 2001, Of Counsel/Senior Counsel in 2006, Partner 2014 to present.
Memberships
Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Foundation regular attendee.
Education
JD, George Washington University Law School (1993); BS, UC San Diego (1990).
Leisure
US Masters Swimmer, Board Member for Tidalwaves Swim Society and Marin Swim League
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
(Leading partners)Noted for its ‘deep knowledge of ERISA litigation nationwide,’ the team at Seyfarth Shaw LLP covers a broad spectrum of ERISA and employee benefits litigation covering all stages from filing through trial and appeal. Lawyers benefit from its collaboration with the employee benefits department’s compliance experts in matters including representing employers in disputes with multi-employer Taft-Hartley plans. In Chicago, Ian Morrison focuses on representing Fortune 500 companies in ERISA cases, and is sought out by employers and plan service providers for defense of significant ERISA litigation. Kathleen Cahill Slaught, in San Francisco, acts as lead trial counsel in ERISA litigation, and has been active in ERISA bench trials in the Central District of California in 2024. Also in Chicago, Sam Schwartz-Fenwick counsels clients in employment and employee benefit best practices matters across the changing legal and cultural landscape surrounding the LGBT community, including transgender insurance benefit coverage and setting up protocols for a more gender-fluid workforce, as well as counselling on claims arising from transgender and LGBT employee benefits discrimination.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- ERISA litigation United States > Labor and employment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious