Kelly A. Starr

Shareholder

T: 312-609-7768 F: 312-609-5005

Chicago

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 and 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, retirement, severance and change-in-control programs, on behalf of both individual executives and companies. Ms. Starr has experience advising boards of directors, and their individual members and committees, with respect to executive compensation issues. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Starr was employed with the human resources department of Amoco Corporation.

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• Executive Compensation Group Advisory
• Nonprescription Drugs Now Reimbursable Under Flexible Spending Accounts
• Department of Labor Changes Voluntary Correction Programs
• New Privacy Rules Affect Plan Sponsors Under ERISA

• Company Representation
• Compensation Committee Consulting
• Employee Benefits
• Employment Agreements
• Executive Compensation
• Executive Pension & Other Benefit Programs
• Individual Executive Representation
• Legal Services for the Retail Industry
• Pension & Welfare Plans
• Plan Administration

• J.D., cum laude, University of Illinois, 1995
• B.S., Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1988

• Illinois, 1995
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1995

• Member, American Bar Association (Section on Taxation)
• Member, Chicago Bar Association