Hansen, Tara

Steve Sacher concentrates on complex ERISA fiduciary responsibility matters and employee benefits litigation and represents clients in the federal courts, before the Department of Labor and other government regulators, and before the Congress.

Highlights of Steve's representations include defending companies in company stock class action and participant standing cases, representing companies in funding defined benefit plans and retiree health plans with company stock, representation of independent fiduciaries in matters involving disabling conflicts of interest on the part of the nominal fiduciaries, representation of fiduciary committees as an independent counsel, and expert witness on behalf of defendants in ERISA class actions. Representative clients include GM, GMAM, Levi Strauss, LTV, Manville, Mobil Oil, Navistar, Xerox, and the fiduciary committees of Caterpillar, Janus, Marsh & McLennan, and Oracle.

Before entering private practice, Steve served in several capacities in government, including general counsel of the United States Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, associate solicitor (ERISA) of the Department of Labor, and executive assistant to the solicitor of labor.

Steve chaired the senior editors of Employee Benefits Law (Bureau of National Affairs, 2000), a publication of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the ABA from 1988 to 2000. He is a Charter Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a founding member of the ERISA Roundtable, and a member of the Visiting Committee, The Law School, University of Chicago. He lectures and publishes frequently on ERISA and employee benefits matters.