Biography of Speaker

Keith McMurdy

KEITH MCMURDY is a Partner in the New York office of Fox Rothschild, LLP. Keith's practice focuses primarily on labor and employment issues arising from the design, drafting and administration of employee benefits plans, including health, welfare, disability and retirement plans. He represents benefit plans, plan sponsors, plan administrators, third-party administrators, and insurers.

Keith's areas of practice include plan drafting, plan amendment and litigation of ERISA claims arising from plan administration. He provides counseling to employers and plan sponsors on compliance issues for applicable federal and state regulations governing the administration of employee benefit plans. He has represented plans, fiduciaries and other interested parties in litigation in a number of jurisdictions and continues to act as litigation counsel for a varied group of clients.

Keith lends his knowledge to the firm's Health Care Reform Working Group, which is designed to help clients sort through the myriad issues and changes stemming from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. He is a frequent speaker and writer on employee benefits topics and maintains the firm’s Employee Benefits Blog.