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By Brooks Igo
(Sept. 9) – McDermott Will & Emery continued expanding in Dallas with the addition of employee benefits partners Erin Turley and Allison Wilkerson, the firm announced last week.
Turley and Wilkerson join from K&L Gates. The move comes on the heels of McDermott luring more than a dozen lawyers from K&L Gates in June. McDermott’s Dallas office has more than doubled in the past six months.
“Erin and Allison are a perfect fit,” David Guedry, partner-in-charge of McDermott’s Dallas office, said in a statement. “They provide geographical coverage, deep substantive expertise and, having previously worked closely with several of our Dallas corporate partners, a proven cross-practice synergy between the Dallas employee benefits and corporate practices.”
Wilkerson, who has worked with Turley since 2002, said they were attracted by the opportunity to utilize McDermott’s national employee benefits platform.
“We worked well with the corporate group that came to McDermott [from K&L Gates] earlier this year,” she said. “I’m excited about this new phase of my career.”
Wilkerson and Turley focus their practices on advising large publicly-traded clients on all areas of ERISA, including qualified plans, non-qualified plans and executive and deferred compensation and welfare benefit plans.
One development Wilkerson is observing in her practice is clients are exploring using annuity projects, which are complex and heavily-regulated pension de-risking techniques, to mitigate the risk of defined benefit pension plans.
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