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Stephen R. Miller is counsel in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Chicago office. He is a member of the Employee Benefits Department, where his practice is concentrated in the area of employee benefit matters for corporations and self-employed individuals, including the adoption and qualification of pension and profit sharing plans, employee welfare benefit plans and trusts, ESOPs and executive compensation issues. He also has extensive experience with fiduciary issues arising under ERISA, problems arising in connection with modifications of retiree medical benefits, and employee benefit issues arising in business sales.
Stephen has team-taught a graduate-level tax course on deferred compensation, and has spoken on a number of employee pension and welfare benefit topics before organizations such as the National Association of Accountants, the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys, the Midwest Benefits Council and the Chicago Bar Association. Articles written by Stephen on employee benefit topics have been published in the Employee Benefits Journal and the Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance.
Stephen is a member of the Worldwide Employee Benefits Network (WEB), the Retirement Income Planners Group, the Lawyers Club of Chicago, the Hundred Club of Chicago, and the American and Chicago Bar Associations, as well as the Yale and Cornell Clubs of Chicago. He served on the Financial Accounting Standards Board Task Force on Post-Employment Benefits Other Than Pensions, and on the elected Management Committee of the Firm. He is a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and its "President's Circle" and "President's Circle Steering Committee" and has served on the Council's Development and External Relations Committees and previously chaired the Membership Development Subcommittee. He has served as a trustee of the Village of Wilmette Police Pension Board and as a member of the Board of Trustees (as well as chairman of the Trusteeship Committee and a member of the Executive Committee) of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.
Education:
Cornell Law School, J.D., 1975
Yale University, B.A., 1972 | 