Ms. Webster is a partner in the firm’s Executive Compensation & Benefits practice group. Ms. Webster’s practice is devoted to the implementation, design and administration of tax-qualified retirement plans, health and welfare plans, non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements and other deferred compensation arrangements for both private and publicly held entities and their treatment in corporate transactions (including ERISA due diligence and plan related issues in connection with acquisitions, dispositions and mergers).

Ms. Webster advises clients on compliance with ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code, including advice regarding reporting and disclosure requirements, fiduciary responsibility, prohibited transaction and plan investment issues. She also advises clients regarding the correction of fiduciary violations, as well as the correction of form and operational errors under the Internal Revenue Service’s Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System.

Ms. Webster also advises clients regarding the design and administration of health and welfare plans and trusts, including cafeteria plans, medical plans, disability plans, life insurance plans, severance plans, commuter programs, employee assistance programs, fringe benefit plans, multiple employer welfare arrangements and voluntary employees’ beneficiary associations. She also counsels clients regarding compliance with COBRA, HIPAA and FMLA.

Ms. Webster is included in the latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America and speaks throughout the country on current developments in employee benefits law.

Education

J.D., University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law, 1989

M.B.A., Xavier University, 1982

B.S., San Diego State University, 1976

Admissions

State of California

Affiliations

American Bar Association, Taxation Section; State Bar of California; San Diego County Bar Association, Taxation Section; Chair Joint Council of Presidents, Western Pension & Benefits Conference, 2004-2005; Immediate Past President and Board Member, San Diego Chapter Western Pension & Benefits Conference, 2004; President, San Diego Chapter of the Western Pension and Benefits Conference, 2000 - 2002; Member, President’s Council, Western Pension and Benefits Conference, 2000 - 2002; Member, Board of Directors, San Diego Chapter of the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, 2000 - 2002; Steering Committee, Los Angeles District Benefits Conference, sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service and the American Society of Pension Actuaries, 2001 and 2003; Member, Advisory Board of the Journal of Deferred Compensation, 1998 - Current; Athena Bio Sciences Steering Committee, 2002-2003; Steering Committee, Employee Benefits Section, California Bar Association Section on Taxation, 1994 - 1997

Recent Conference Presentations

Speaker, 2007, Western Pension & Benefits Conference Annual Conference, San Francisco, California (General Session: Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor Q&A Session – Defined Contribution Plans), Co-Speaker with Martin L. Pippins, Internal Revenue Service, Craig P. Hoffman and Joe Canary

Speaker, 2007, Internal Revenue Service, Los Angeles District Benefits Conference, (“Automatic Plans And Investment Advice After The New Legislation”), Co-Speaker with Fil Williams, Department of Labor

Speaker, 2006, Internal Revenue Service, Los Angeles District Benefits Conference (“New Developments In Health & Welfare”), Co-Speaker with Harry Becker, Internal Revenue Service

Speaker, 2005, American Society of Pension Plan Actuaries and Western Pension & Benefits Conference Annual Conference, San Diego, California (Managing Fiduciary Responsibility: “Ten Things You Need To Know”), Co-Speaker with Ann Habernigg, Esq., Microsoft Corporation

Speaker, 2003, Western Pension & Benefits Conference Annual Conference, Monterey, California (“Compliance With 404(c) And Treatment Of Plan Expenses”), Co-Speaker with Paulette Leahy, Esq., Union Bank of California

Firm Publications

Does a Conflict of Interest Matter?, 24-Jun-2008

Sereboff v. Mid-Atlantic Medical Services: Welfare Plans May Maintain Some Reimbursement Claims Against Participants and Beneficiaries Under ERISA, 23-Jun-2006