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Publications | Professional Memberships
Kathryn Kennedy joined The John Marshall Law School as a full-time faculty member after many years of private practice and as an adjunct professor specializing in employee benefits law. She had practiced with the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery in Chicago and was an actuary with the actuarial consulting firm of Towers Perrin.
She became a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 1976. Due to her combined legal and actuarial background, she offers the law school a unique perspective in the area of employee benefits law. In 2006 she published a textbook, entitled Employee Benefits Law: Qualification and ERISA Requirements, as part of the LexisNexis graduate tax series.
In 2009, Dean Kennedy was recognized as the Educator of the Year by ASPPA. She was also inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.
Dean Kennedy has also published numerous articles on employee benefits law, listed below. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Pension Benefits and Journal of Individual Employment Rights, and is a member of Westlaw's Employment Advisory Board. Dean Kennedy has testified before the US Senate Finance Committee on several occasions and has proposed legislation in the area of executive deferred compensation plans. She has served as vice chair of the Chicago Bar Association Employee Benefits Committee, chair of the Illinois State Bar Association Employee Benefits Section Council, and vice chair of the Distribution Subcommittee of the Joint Committee for Employee Benefits of the ABA Section of Taxation.
She is the primary faculty advisor for the John Marshall Law Review. Dean Kennedy established the LLM Program in Employee Benefits in 1998, expanding upon the graduate tax program's employee benefits concentration.
Full Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Excessive Executive Compensation: A Review of Prior Federal Tax and Other Short-Cuts Used to Curb Abuses, 10 Houston Bus. & Tax. L. J. (forthcoming, February 2010).
Employee Benefits Law: Qualification and ERISA Requirements (2d ed.), Lexis Nexis Casebook Series, (forthcoming 2010).
PPA's New Benefit Restrictions for Defined Benefit Plans, 122 TAX NOTES 583 (May 4, 2009).
A Current Update of EPCRS Through Rev. Proc. 2008-50, 37 Tax Mgm't. Comp. Plan. J. No. 1 (2009).
The Demise of Defined Benefit Plans for Private Employers, 121 TAX NOTES 179 , Oct. 13, 2008.
IRAs, BNA Compensation Planning Journal, Portfolio 367 (8th edition 2008).
SEPs and SIMPLEs, BNA Compensation Planning Journal, Portfolio 368 (8th edition 2008).
IRAs, SEPs and SIMPLEs, BNA Compensation Planning Journal, Portfolio 358 (7th edition), 2007 and (6th edition), 2004.
ERISA's Participant Benefit Statement Requirements: Current Rules Under PPA '06 and a Suggested Blueprint for Future Interpretations, 35 Tax Mgmt Comp Plann J. No. 10 (Oct. 5, 2007).
PPA '06 Makes IRA Rollovers More Attractive: Maybe It's Time to Switch to a Self-Directed IRA? Think Again!, 35 Tax Mgmt Comp Plann J No. 7 (July 6, 2007).
EPCRS Got a 2006 Makeover: Are the Changes More Than Cosmetic?, 78 Tax Mngt Comp Planning J., Vol. 34, No. 8 (August 2006).
Pension Funding Reform: It's Finally Time to Get it Right (Part One), 108 TAX NOTES 907, Aug. 22, 2005 and Pension Funding Reform: It's Finally Time to Get it Right (Part Two), 108 TAX NOTES 1039, Aug. 22, 2005.
Recent Legislative Initiatives Regarding Executive Compensation Plans, 76 Tax Mngt Comp Planning J., Vol. 32, No. 7 (July 2004).
A Brand New Tomorrow for Correcting Disqualifying Failures, 75 Tax Mngt Comp Planning J., Vol. 31, No. 11 (Nov. 2003).
Proposed Legislation to Curb Abuses: Nonqualified Executive Deferred Compensation Plans and Underlying Security Devices, 75 Tax Mgnt Comp Planning J., Vol. 31, No. 3 (March 2003).
Primer on Qualified Plans and IRA Distribution Rules Updated for the 2002 IRS Final Regulations," 74 Tax Mgnt Comp Planning J., Vol. 30, No. 11 (Nov. 2002)
A Primer on the Taxation of Executive Deferred Compensation Plans, 35 J. Marshall L. Rev. 487 (2002)
The Perilous and Ever-Changing Procedural Rules of Pursuing an ERISA Claims Case, 70 UMKC L.Rev.329 (2001)
Judicial Standard of Review in ERISA Benefit Claim Cases, 50 Amer. Univ. L. Rev. 1083 (2001)
Professional Memberships/ Awards
Member, IRS' Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT), (2009-11)
2009 ASPPA Educator of the Year Award
2009 Induction as a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC)
Academic Advisor to The IRA Group (members include AllianceBertsin, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Principal, Prudential, ING, TIAA-CREF, Vanguard), 2007 to present
Member, U.S. Department of Labor's ERISA Advisory Council (2005-07), and Chair of the Working Paper on Improved Participant Communications under Health and Welfare Plans (Fall 2005); Vice Chair of the Working Paper on Health Information Technology Impact on ERISA Health Plans (Fall 2006) and Vice Chair of the Working Paper on Automatic Benefit Statements (Fall 2007)
Member of the IRS' Great Lakes' TE/GE Advisory Board, 2004 to present
Editorial Board, Journal of Pension Benefits and Journal of Individual Employment Rights
Advisory Board Member for West Law Labor & Employment
Member and Former Chair of the AALS' Employee Benefits Committee (2008)
Member, ABA Section of Taxation, Employee Benefits Subcommittee; Chair of Distributions Subcommittee (2009-10)
Former Chair and Current Member, Illinois State Bar Association Employee Benefits Section Council
Former Chair and Current Member, Chicago Bar Association Employee Benefits committee
Member, Society of Actuaries
Member, WEB, a network of Benefits Professionals
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