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Charles K. Kerby III is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of the Employee Benefits Department. He has over 25 years of experience with ERISA and other federal and state laws affecting the design and administration of employer-sponsored benefit plans, and advises on issues affecting health and welfare plans.
Chip most recently served as an attorney and principal in the Washington Resource Group of Mercer Human Resource Consulting, LLC. Prior to joining Mercer in 1989, Chip worked for three years as a senior manager with the employee services group at PriceWaterhouse. His experience also includes working with the tax and employee benefits practice of a D.C. law firm, and serving as an assistant branch chief and attorney-advisor in the Chief Counsel's office of the IRS.
Chip's practice is focused on several key issues, including tax and ERISA issues associated with consumer-driven health plans, retiree health plan design and funding alternatives, compliance issues for ERISA health and welfare benefit plans, the erosion of ERISA preemption and potential health plan liability, and federal and state initiatives to reform the nation's health care system.
Chip currently serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center teaching the LLM course on ERISA Health and Welfare Benefit Plans. He is also a fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, a member of the National Health Lawyers Association and a member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Tax Section of the ABA. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
Education:
Washington and Lee University School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 1978
Georgetown University Law Center, L.L.M. (Taxation), 1983
University of Delaware, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1975 | 