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Douglas M. Love
Douglas M. Love

Douglas M. Love

Partner
Seattle
+1.206.370.7592
Email Douglas M. Love @ doug.love@klgates.com
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Douglas Love practices in the areas of employee benefits and ERISA, including tax-qualified and nonqualified retirement plans such as pension, profit sharing and 401(k) plans, 403(b), 457(b) and (f) plans, executive and stock-based compensation, ESOPs and welfare plans such as severance, medical and cafeteria plans. He was selected as Best Lawyers’ 2015 Seattle Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law “Lawyer of the Year”.

  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2007-2026
  • Selected as Best Lawyers’ Seattle Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law “Lawyer of the Year,” 2015
  • Western Pension & Benefits Council
  • Council President, Bethany Lutheran Church, Bainbridge Island
  • Panel Speaker, “Trials and Tribulations of Plan Conversions,” ASPPA Benefits Council, Great Northwest, Quarterly Update, 26 September 2018, Seattle
  • Presenter, “Trump Administration Legal Effects on Employee Benefit Plans,” Cement Employers Association Annual Meeting, 19 September 2017, Las Vegas
  • Presenter, “Litigation Merry-Go-Round," Along with Ron Kravitz of Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller, Shah, LLP, Western Benefits Conference,10 July 2017, Anaheim
  • Presenter, “Case Law Update: ERISA and Employee Benefit Plans,” Cement Employers Association Annual Meeting, 27 September 2016, Orlando
  • Presenter, “Legal Update: Review of Recent Federal Court Decisions Involving Employee Benefit Plans and ERISA,” Western Pension & Benefits Council Chapter Meeting, 16 February 2016, Seattle
  • Presenter, “409A and Select Benefits Issues for Employment Lawyers,” 16th Annual Labor and Employment Law Program providing continuing education for lawyers and HR professionals, The Seminar Group, 15-16 August 2013, Seattle
  • Presenter, “The Devil is in the Details: QDROs Dividing Retirement Benefits under ERISA,” 18 March, 2011 at American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Continuing Legal Education seminar
  • “Investment Policies, Performance Monitoring & Market Turmoil,” Spring Seminar, Western Pension & Benefits Conference, with Marlow Kee, Valentina Zackrone, and Mary Ellen Mullen, 2009 
  • Co-Presenter, “The Final 409A Regulations: How Will They Impact Your Company?” With Robert Starin, Western Pension & Benefits Conference, 22 January 2008
  • Presenter, “Documenting the Business Acquisition Transaction,” On the employee benefits aspects of business transactions, Washington State Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 26 April 2006 and 23 September 2008
  • Co-Presenter, “Deferred Compensation under Internal Revenue Code Section 409A,” With Robert Starin, Breakfast Briefings for Employers, 4 May 2005 and 22 June 2007
  • “Employers as Retirement Plan Fiduciaries, Post-ENRON,” Spring Seminar, Western Pension & Benefits Conference, 2003
  • “Key Issues in Drafting and Enforcing Executive Employment Agreements,” Spring Seminar, Western Pension & Benefits Conference, 2002 
  • “Severance Plans - Employers May Have Less Discretion Than They Think,” Northwest Employee Benefits Conference, Washington State Bar Association, 1996
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