The Knowledge & Experience to Take You Further
Kent A. Mason
Partner
Kent advises Davis & Harman clients in the employee benefits area. He works primarily with major employers, large plans, and national vendors of retirement plan services. He is an expert in the full range of employee benefits issues—including all types of retirement plans, deferred compensation arrangements, health and life insurance for employees and retirees, COBRA, VEBAs, and cafeteria plans.
Kent frequently represents clients before the IRS, Treasury, the Department of Labor, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. He also works extensively for trade associations on legislative and administrative issues affecting retirement plans and other employee benefits.
Prior to joining Davis & Harman, Kent served as a Legislation-Attorney for the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress, and as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Tax Policy of the US Department of the Treasury. While with the government, he focused on the taxation of retirement plans, health plans, and other employee benefits. After law school, he served as a Law Clerk Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
"We are trying to improve the employee benefits area, and ensure that people have a secure retirement and adequate health care," says Kent Mason. "I am doing work I believe in."
Kent speaks and writes frequently on employee benefits issues, and has testified on several occasions at IRS regulatory hearings. His speeches and articles cover a complete range of benefits issues—including legislative updates, analysis of new regulations, plan design alternatives, new compliance issues, and correction methodologies.
Kent received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Georgia Bar Associations and was elected to the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.
Kent is a native of Bethesda, Maryland. After a long career of coaching kids' sports on weekends, he has retired his cap and clipboard.
Prior Experience
- Legislation Attorney, Joint Committee on Taxation, US Congress
- Attorney-Advisor, Office of Tax Policy, US Department of the Treasury
- Law Clerk to Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Memberships
- District of Columbia Bar
- Georgia Bar
- American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
- American Bar Association
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Education
- BA, magna cum laude, Amherst College, 1976
- JD, magna cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1980
- University of Pennsylvania Law Review
- Elected to the Order of the Coif
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