Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Labor and Employment Department; ERISA & Employee Benefits Litigation Practice Group (Co-Chair).

Ian Morrison has extensive experience representing employers, employee benefit plans, and fiduciaries in a broad range of ERISA and employee benefits litigation. He has successfully handled numerous high-stakes ERISA class actions for Fortune 500 companies, complex individual claims, and well as complex nationwide portfolios of litigation. Many of his ERISA cases have resulted in leading and often-cited court decisions. Ian has handled a wide range of ERISA matter through trial and appeal including individual pension and welfare benefit claims, severance pay claims, executive compensation disputes, class action claims regarding plan design, and class action claims regarding plan administration and fiduciary responsibility.

After a federal judicial clerkship, Ian joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP in 1997. Ian became a partner in the firm in 2003 and was subsequently appointed Co-Chair of the firm's ERISA & Employee Benefits Litigation Practice Group.

Ian is an active member of the ABA's Employee Benefits Committee (EBC). He has served as Co-Chair of two of its subcommittees and is a regular speaker at EBC events. Ian also is a contributing author and Co-Chair of the Board of Senior Editors of the BNA treatise Employee Benefits Law.  In addition, Ian regularly writes on ERISA litigation topics in other publications, and frequently comments in trade publications on ERISA litigation developments.

JD, Washington University in St. Louis (1995); BA, University of Chicago (1992).

When he isn’t practicing law, Ian spends time training for triathlons, traveling, and enjoying the arts.