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Tyler is an associate in the firm’s Employee Benefits &amp; Executive Compensation practice group. She focuses her practice on assisting plan sponsors and plan fiduciaries with the complex requirements applicable to employee benefit plans and arrangements arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code.

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Tyler’s experience includes drafting plan documents and summary plan descriptions as well as participant notices and disclosures, analyzing plan administrative questions arising in connection with employee benefit arrangements, and advising with respect to the Internal Revenue Service’s and Department of Labor’s voluntary correction programs.&nbsp; She also provides legal analysis and advice to pension and welfare plan sponsors and fiduciaries on ERISA fiduciary duties as well as applicable tax requirements, such as the requirements regarding tax-qualified retirement plans and trusts.

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Tyler is a graduate of Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law, where she was a member of the Black Law Students Association and the Legal Association of Women. She was selected to serve in a peer mentoring capacity for incoming students, and she also led a study group for first-year law students. While in law school, she worked as an intern with the State of Ohio Department of Administrative Services, Collective Bargaining Unit and the United States Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio.

Prior to joining Thompson Hine, she worked as an associate at a law firm where she provided advice on a wide range of employment-related issues, including human resources issues, wage and hour law, labor relations, FMLA matters, employee benefits legal and compliance matters, multiemployer pension plan matters (plans established pursuant to collective bargaining), employment-related grievances and policy compliance.

<em>Tyler is not admitted to practice in the District of Columbia; she is admitted only in Ohio.</em> <em>Her work is supervised by principals of the firm.</em>

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Ohio Northern University College of Law, J.D., 2019

The Ohio State University, B.A., 2012

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

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Tyler C. Watson

<h3>Professional Associations</h3>
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<li>Ohio State Bar Association</li>
<li>Toledo Bar Association</li>
<li>International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans</li>
</ul>
<h3>Community Activities</h3>
<ul>
<li>AFL-CIO, Union Lawyers Alliance</li>
</ul>


Tyler C.Watson

Tyler C.Watson

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