Katherine Hesse, Esq., CEBS

Katherine A. Hesse, a partner in the law firm of Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP in Boston, Massachusetts, practices primarily in labor, employment and employee benefits law. She serves as counsel to Fortune 500 companies, emerging businesses, government, taxexempt organizations, and large Taft-Hartley and governmental trusts. Hesse advises clients on employment and benefits issues and has litigated employment and benefits cases before state and federal trial and appellate courts, administrative agencies and arbitrators. She has also served as a professional trustee for public and Taft-Hartley trust funds and as an expert witness, mediator and arbitrator of benefit fund disputes. Hesse led her team of attorneys to be named the only firm in New England and one of only 11 in the United States to the special ERISA fiduciary litigation panel for one of the world’s largest insurance companies. She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Foundation and as Chair of its Government Liaison Committee. She also sits on the editorial board of Benefits Quarterly and speaks and writes regularly on employment and benefits issues. Hesse is a past president of the ISCEBS Governing Council and was inducted into the ISCEBS Hall of Fame in 2018. She received her B.A. degree from Smith College and her J.D. degree from the Boston University School of Law.