Peta Lewis Hallisey
Associate


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Practice Areas: ERISA, Employee Benefits,
ERISA litigation, Employment law

Admitted: 1984, California

• Early Neutral Evaluator, U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of California • Assistant Comment Editor, Pacific
Law Journal, 1983-1984 • American Bar Association,
Labor and Employment Law Section,Employee Benefits
Committee (1990-), Neutral Co- Chair, Welfare Plans
Subcommittee (1993-1998) • Association of Corporate Counsel •
San Diego County Bar Association

Selected Publications, Seminars and Reported Cases:
Chapter Editor and Contributing Author,
Employee Benefits Law, Welfare Benefit Plans, 2nd edition,
BNA Books, 2000, ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, 1992 to present, A Nightmare (or Three) on ERISA Street -- and How to Avoid Them, Focus on Benefits, Summer 1994, Comment, The Fetal Patient and Unwilling Mother: A Standard for Judicial Intervention, 14 Pacific Law Journal, 1065, 1983, Assistant Comment Editor, Pacific Law Journal, 1983-1984, Comment Staff Writer, Pacific Law Journal, 1982-1983, Faculty Member, ERISA BASICS ABA National Institute, Los Angeles, California, 1996, Presenter ABA Employee Benefits Committee, Midwinter Meeting, 1992 - Present, Steen v. John Hancock Life Insurance Company, 106 F.3d, 9th Cir. 1997, Friedrich v. Intel Corporation, 21 Employee Benefit Cas., BNA, 2203, Eastern District Of California, 1997, aff'd, 181 F.3d 1105, 1999

Education: McGeorge School of Law, University of the
Pacific, Summa Cum Laude
Order
of the Coif
, 1984 • University of California,
Berkeley, MLS • Georg August Universität, Göttingen,
Germany • University of California, Davis, B.S. and A.B.
 

Born: Caldwell, Idaho







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