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Practice Areas: Richard Shea, a senior partner, is widely regarded as the nation’s leading authority on cash balance, pension equity, and other complex benefit plan designs. His approach focuses on developing important new legal insights and ideas, and then combining them into effective litigation, legislative, regulatory, and benefit design strategies for his clients.

Career: Associate Benefits Tax Counsel, US Treasury Department, 1989-91; Judicial Clerk, Hon. Carl McGowan, US Court of Appeals, 1983-84.

Personal: University of Virginia School of Law, JD, 1983 (Exec. Editor, Virginia Law Review); Fulbright Fellow, Universidad Católica del Perú, 1976-77; Amherst College, AB, magna cum laude, 1976.