Eva Kerr is an associate in Snell & Wilmer’s Phoenix office. Her practice focuses on all areas of employee benefits, including qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, executive compensation, health and welfare plans and fiduciary responsibility.
Eva works on a wide variety of issues including plan design, plan modification, plan disclosures, plan corrections, and new legislation and regulations. She assists with tax issues pertaining to benefit plans, including health plans, cafeteria plans, pension plans, profit-sharing plans, Section 401(k) plans, and nonqualified deferred compensation plans, and works on compliance with various federal laws, such as ERISA, COBRA, and the health care reform law (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act).
Eva also assists on ERISA litigation matters including ERISA standard of review, benefit claims, breach of fiduciary duty and ERISA preemption.
Education
- The University of Iowa College of Law (J.D., with distinction, 2008)
- Managing Editor, Iowa Law Review
- The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts (B.S., Biology, 2003)
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of Arizona
- United States District Court, District of Arizona
Professional Memberships & Activities
- State Bar of Arizona
- American Bar Association
- Maricopa County Bar Association
- Western Pension & Benefits Conference, Phoenix Chapter
- Arizona Women Lawyer's Association
- Volunteer Lawyers Program
Representative Presentations & Publications
- Additional Extension of COBRA Premium Subsidy Eligibility Period, Snell & Wilmer Employee Benefits Update (March 2010)
- Required Minimum Distributions from Defined Contributions Plans Waived for 2009, Tax News, a publication of the Tax Section of the State Bar of Arizona (June 2009)
- New Rules Amend Truth in Lending Act to Exclude Plan Loans, Snell & Wilmer Employee Benefits Update (April 2009)
- Prejudice, Procedure, and a Proper Presumption: Restoring the Remmer Presumption of Prejudice in Order to Protect Criminal Defendants' Sixth Amendement Rights, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 1451 (2008)
Community Involvement
- Youth Evaluation and Treatment Center, Board of Directors
- Big Brothers, Big Sisters
Other Professional Experience
- United States District Court, Northern District of Iowa, Legal Intern to Hon. Linda R. Reade
