Your ERISA Watch is written and edited by Kantor & Kantor LLP attorney Peter Sessions, with the assistance of the law firm’s legal journalist, Emily Payson.
Each week our goal is to provide you with the benefit of the expertise of knowledgeable ERISA litigators who are on the frontline of benefit claim and fiduciary breach litigation. Although our law firm represents plaintiffs, we strive to provide objective and balanced summaries so they are informative for the widest possible audience. If you have any questions or a decision you would like to see included in our Your ERISA Watch blog, please email us.
Peter Sessions is a partner at Kantor & Kantor who has been with the firm since 2004. Peter represents individual clients seeking health, life, and disability benefits, typically under employee health plans. Peter has litigated cases across the country and has extensive federal appellate experience.
Peter was born in Vermont and went to college in Massachusetts. After college, he lived in New York for two years, where he worked for the New York County District Attorney’s Office. In 1994, he moved to Los Angeles to attend law school. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.
Emily Payson is the staff writer at Your ERISA Watch blog. Prior to taking this position reporting on the latest developments in employee benefits law, Emily worked as a creative writer on a diverse array of projects including as the lyricist for the 2017 PBS documentary Portrait of Harry and as a fiction writer of several short stories, children’s books, and a YA novel.
Emily jumped at the opportunity to take this journalistic position at Your ERISA Watch when it arose, eager to engage with this complex area of the law. Emily loves that her work summarizing ERISA decisions encompasses so many broad areas of interest from healthcare to economics. It is Emily’s wholehearted belief that workers deserve to receive the benefits they not only have been promised, but that they’ve earned.