Shumaker Strengthens Employee Benefits Team with Addition of Rachael E. Hancock  – Legal Reader

Rachael earned her B.A. from the College of Michigan in 2013 and her LL.M. in worldwide and comparative legislation and J.D. from Cornell Regulation College in 2018.

AKRON, OH – Shumaker is happy to announce the addition of expert worker advantages and industrial litigator Rachael E. Hancock to its Akron workplace as a senior lawyer. Rachael focuses her follow on the Worker Retirement Earnings Safety Act of  1974 (ERISA) and complicated industrial litigation and dispute administration throughout a broad vary of industries. She represents purchasers in ERISA and worker advantages litigation—together with multiemployer delinquency and employer withdrawal legal responsibility issues—fiduciary points, govt compensation and different worker advantages plans, and industrial litigation and enterprise disputes.

Previous to becoming a member of Shumaker, she gained helpful expertise working with a big worldwide legislation agency in Washington, D.C., in addition to a nationally famend worker advantages boutique agency, the place she gained vital expertise in advanced ERISA litigation issues. Rachael additionally clerked for U.S. District Court docket Judges within the District of New Jersey and the Northern District of Ohio, additional advancing her deep information of litigation in federal courtroom.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Rachael to Shumaker,” mentioned Scott D. Newsom, Accomplice and Advantages Nationwide Service Line Chief. “Rachael’s technical information and federal courtroom expertise permits her to offer clear, actionable methods and sensible steering to our purchasers as disputes method and proceed by way of litigation. Rachael’s addition will additional strengthen the counsel and assist we offer to Boards of Trustees, employers, plan sponsors, and executives.”

Rachael earned her B.A. from the College of Michigan in 2013 and her LL.M. in worldwide and comparative legislation and J.D. from Cornell Regulation College in 2018. Along with her authorized work, she serves as a senior lecturer on the College of Akron College of Regulation and as an affiliate board member at Children’ Ebook Financial institution, which promotes literacy by offering free books to youngsters by way of a community of group companions, underscoring Shumaker’s dedication to assist literacy efforts.

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