Kelly A. Starr
Shareholder
T: +1 (312) 609 7768
F: +1 (312) 609 5005
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Kelly A. Starr is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and has practiced employee benefits and executive compensation law since joining the firm in 1995. She 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, deferred compensation, severance agreements and change-in-control programs, on behalf of both individual executives and companies. Ms. Starr has 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 is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Taxation and Business Law Sections of the American Bar Association. Ms. Starr currently serves on the firm’s Nominating and Diversity Committees. She formerly served as the Chair of the firm’s Associate Evaluation Committee and as a member of the firm’s Associate Hiring Committee.
Ms. Starr was selected for inclusion in 2006, and from 2009 to 2012 in Illinois Super Lawyers. Ms. Starr was selected by her peers as a Leading Lawyer in Employee Benefits Law and is a member of their Leading Lawyers Network.
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- J.D., cum laude, University of Illinois, 1995
- B.S. (Industrial and Labor Relations), Cornell University, 1988
- Illinois, 1995
- US District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1995
- Member, American Bar Association (Sections on Taxation and Business Law)
- Member, Chicago Bar Association
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