Kathryn J. Kennedy

Professor
Chair, Tax and Employee Benefits Practice Group
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
(312) 427-2737 ext. 515
E-mail: 7kennedy@jmls.edu

B.S., with honors, Drake University
J.D., summa cum laude, Northwestern University School of Law
F.S.A., Society of Actuaries

IRAs, SEPs and SIMPLEs, BNA Compensation Planning Journal, Portfolio 358 (7^th edition), 2007.

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).

Shouldn't the Pension Protection Act of 2006 been called the Pension Extinction Act of 2006?, available at Keynote Speech, 2007 Drake University Archie R. Boe Lecture Series, The Kelley Insurance Center, April 17, 2007. Powerpoint Presentation | MS Word Speech

Keynote Speech at the Sungard Relius Advanced Pension Conference, September 6, 2006

Employee Benefits Law: Qualification and ERISA Requirements, a textbook, coauthored with Paul T. Shultz, Lexis/Nexis Graduate Tax Series, Fall 2006.

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.

IRAs, SEPs and SIMPLEs, BNA Compensation Planning Journal, Portfolio 355 (6th edition), 2004.

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)