Julia Ann Love

Practices

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Professional Experience

Julia focuses her practice on the design, establishment and maintenance of tax-qualified pension, 401(k) and profit-sharing plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans, equity compensation arrangements and health and welfare benefit plans, including flexible benefit programs and cafeteria plans. Julia frequently advises clients on healthcare reform, COBRA and HIPAA matters. With respect to HIPAA, Julia has advised clients on HIPAA privacy and security as well as best practices and workforce training. Julia also has significant experience in the employee benefit aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Julia counsels clients on IRS and DOL compliance matters, including voluntary correction programs and determination letter filings.

Julia has significant experience counseling both public and private company executives on issues related to fiduciary compliance and corporate governance related to administration of employee benefit plans and executive compensation arrangements.

Prior to joining the firm, Julia was an associate at Jones Day.

Julia is admitted to practice in New York and Ohio.

Julia is a member of the firm's New Lawyer Committee.

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1994, cum laude
• Boston University, B.A., 1991, magna cum laude

• “Health Care Reform for the Tax Practitioner”, Tax Executives Institute, Inc., 2012
• “HR Professional’s Guide to ERISA Fiduciary Duties”, Thompson Hine 2011 Labor & Employment Seminar, December 7, 2011
• "Creative Cost Management Strategies for Prescription Drug Plans", Manufacturers' Education Council, 8th Annual Summit on Controlling HealthCare Costs, April 14, 2011
• "Welfare Traps for the Unwary", Thompson Hine 2011 Employee Benefits Update, March 29, 2011
• "Workforce Restructurings", Thompson Hine LLP Labor & Employment Roundtable, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2, 2009
• "Employee Benefits in Mergers and Acquisitions"; Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Cleveland Tax Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, October 29, 2008
• "Wellness Compliance and Consumerism"; Medina County Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Professionals, Medina, Ohio, September 23, 2008
• "Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Update"; Northeast Ohio Association of Corporate Counsel of America, Cleveland, Ohio, February 21, 2008
• "Wellness Compliance and Consumerism"; Oswald Companies Seminar, Independence, Ohio, January 31, 2008
• "2007 Legislative Grab Bag - Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation"; Cleveland Chapter, International Certified Employee Benefits Society, Independence, Ohio, December 11, 2007
• "The Die is Cast - Final 409A Regulations Impact Employment and Severance Agreements"; Thompson Hine LLP Cleveland Labor & Employment Seminar, Cleveland, Ohio, September 25, 2007
• "Application of Tax Code Section 409A to Employment and Severance Agreements"; RR Donnelly SEC Hot Topics Seminar, Cleveland, Ohio, October 6, 2006
• "Employer Health Plans in 2006 and Beyond"; Thompson Hine LLP Cleveland Labor & Employment Seminar, Cleveland, Ohio, June 8, 2006

• YWCA Women of Professional Excellence Award, 2008