Maureen’s practice focuses on representing Taft-Hartley employee benefit funds in ERISA compliance, plan counseling, and litigation. Her clients include construction industry multiemployer pension plans, welfare plans, and apprenticeship training funds.

Maureen provides advice on a broad spectrum of plan administration and fiduciary responsibilities. She has advised clients on tax and regulatory consequences of investments, represents plans in matters before federal regulatory agencies, advises trustees on plan amendments and mergers, and works collaboratively with other plan professionals to ensure their mutual clients maintain tax qualified status. Maureen’s versatility enables her to assist clients in promptly resolving day-to-day plan administration issues and managing long-term projects.

Maureen’s litigation practice includes collections, creditor bankruptcy claims, and claims and appeals issues. She also has represented plans and trustees in fiduciary litigation, including ERISA fiduciary actions to recover plan assets and defending trustees from breach of fiduciary duty claims. Maureen has experience with withdrawal liability claims, including successor liability and evade or avoid transactions. She also has represented individuals in wage and hour class actions under the FLSA.

Maureen has had a variety of working experiences, both legal and nonlegal, that have filled her toolbox to enable her to work in a comprehensive and thoughtful way. She previously operated a solo legal practice and worked at a boutique labor and employee benefits firm in Philadelphia. She also worked as a federal employee, for a legal publisher, and during law school she clerked for the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Education and Labor Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts Port Authority, and Boston Public Schools Office of Labor Relations. Maureen counts her dedication to working people back to her very first jobs in the food service and retail industries.

Maureen is an active member of the ABA’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, a chapter editor of the Employee Benefits Law treatise, and participates as a panelist for Committee presentations and webinars. Maureen also is a member of the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. She volunteers as an Advising Attorney to the Washington Lawyers’ Committee Workers’ Rights Clinic, a Girl Scout Co-Leader, foster for Luv-N-Bunns rabbit rescue, and voter protection observer.