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Austin E. Anderson

Senior Counsel

Austin is Senior Counsel in LP’s Employment & Executive Compensation Group. 

He represents private and public employers in all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation. He routinely advises on qualified retirement plans, welfare benefit plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, equity incentive plans, fringe benefits, and other benefit arrangements.

Austin helps clients navigate ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, and the many other laws affecting employee benefits. He represents and defends employers in their interactions with the U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services. He also advises clients on the employee benefits aspects of business transactions and ESOPs.

Austin earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.

Contact

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Phone Number

+1 312 476 7627

Additional Information

Education & Admissions

Education
  • University of Michigan Law School, J.D.
  • University of Notre Dame, B.A.
Bar Admissions
  • Illinois
  • Indiana

Awards

  • The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch (2021 – 2026)

Q&A

  • What’s your favorite quote?
    “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.” (Everything changes; nothing perishes.) – Ovid.

  • What’s your favorite book?
    Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

  • What was your very first job?
    Laying concrete.