Sheila Campbell Murphy is of counsel to the firm. Sheila combines more than 30 years of experience in ERISA and employee benefits with a business background. She was previously an ERISA attorney with Carol C. Brown & Associates, P.C.; a senior consultant in the Retirement Practice of William M. Mercer, Incorporated; and an attorney at Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple, P.C., where she concentrated in ERISA and trusts and estates.

Before practicing law, she served as Benefits Director of the TJX Companies, Inc. Sheila is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and is a member of the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations. She received her B.A. from Michigan State University (1969), her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School (1981), and her LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law (1987).

Richard A. Szczebak is of counsel to the firm. He has more than 20 years of experience as an ERISA benefits lawyer and consultant specializing in all aspects of design, administration and taxation of group health and welfare benefit plans. Rick was previously Vice President of health and welfare compliance for Fidelity Investments, Senior Consultant in the Ropes & Gray Benefits Consulting Group, and Counsel with Mass Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Apart from the firm, Rick is currently a special contract advisor to the General Counsel of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority with respect to Section 125 cafeteria plans, commercial insurance and group health plan issues related to COBRA, HIPAA and ERISA. He authored the Health Connector regulation, 956 CMR 4.00, implementing the cafeteria plan requirement under the new Massachusetts health care reform law and developed the Health Connector's template cafeteria plan documents.

Rick has been a lecturer for the New England Employee Benefits Council and was a major contributor to the last rewrite of the BNA Tax Management Portfolio on Code Section 125 Cafeteria Plans. Rick has spoken as a Health Connector representative at numerous employer forums and panels on Massachusetts health care reform, including those sponsored by Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the Mass Bar Association, New England Employee Benefits Council and the ERISA Industry Committee.

Rick is a graduate of UMass Amherst and received his law degree, cum laude, from Marquette University Law School (1985). He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the U.S. District Court (MA) and Wisconsin.