Robert B. Davis
Partner
Tel 202-662-2290    Fax 202-393-3310
RBDavis@davis-harman.com      DOWNLOAD VCARD
Robert’s practice is focused on employer-sponsored health and welfare benefit programs. His areas of expertise include the tax treatment of such programs, as well as the myriad related legislative and regulatory requirements such as COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA, the Public Health Service Act, and the Affordable Care Act. He has extensive experience advising clients on all types of health and welfare programs, including group health plans, health savings accounts (HSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), cafeteria plans, and retiree medical programs.

Prior to joining Davis & Harman, Robert was a Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP, where he was head of the Washington Rewards Policy Center of Excellence. In that role he advised a broad range of private and public sector employers and service providers on compliance issues relating to health and welfare, retirement, and leave programs. Among other things, he led efforts to help clients achieve compliance with the Affordable Care Act of 2010, the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.

He writes and speaks frequently on employee benefits issues. Additionally, he is a former Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center where he taught a course on health and welfare benefit plans.

Robert is a graduate of Wake Forest University (BA) and the University of North Carolina School of Law (JD). He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.


Prior Experience
  • Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
  • Legislative Representative, The ERISA Industry Committee
  • Senior Legislative Assistant/Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
Bar and Court Admissions
  • District of Columbia
The Willard    1455 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW , Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20004    Tel 202-347-2230    Fax 202-393-3310
Education
  • BA, cum laude, Wake Forest University, 1989
  • JD, University of North Carolina School of Law, 1993
The Willard
1455 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20004
Tel 202-347-2230
Fax 202-393-3310