Kelly A. Starr > Vedder Price > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile

Kelly A. Starr

+1 (312) 609 7768 kstarr@vedderprice.com View profile

Work Department

Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits

Position

Shareholder

Career

Ms. Starr counsels a variety of employers on all aspects of employee benefits law, including the design, tax qualification, legal compliance, correction, interpretation, communication and termination of broad-based employee benefit plans. She also negotiates and structures executive employment agreements and executive compensation and benefit arrangements, including incentive compensation and deferred compensation agreements, severance agreements and change-in-control programs, on behalf of both individual executives and companies. She has substantial experience advising boards of directors and their committees with respect to executive compensation issues.

Prior to attending law school, Ms. Starr was employed with the human resources department of Amoco Corporation.

Ms. Starr currently serves as the Chair of the firm’s Benefits Committee. She formerly served as the Chair of the firm’s Associate Evaluation Committee and as a member of the firm’s Shareholder Compensation Committee, Associate Hiring Committee, Diversity Committee and Nominating Committee.

Memberships

• Member, American Bar Association (Sections on Taxation and Business Law)
• Member, Chicago Bar Association

Education

• University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 1995, cum laude
• Cornell University, B.S., 1988