Shari A. Wynne is the CEO and Managing Partner of the Firm. As Managing Partner, she oversees all of the firm's activities and ensures client expectations are surpassed regarding communication, pricing, resource availability, strategy and legal results. Since co-founding the firm in 1996, Ms. Wynne has helped establish the firm's distinctive communication style with clients to support real-time strategy adjustments, innovative pricing and exceptional legal value.

Ms. Wynne also heads the firm's labor and employment practice. She has rendered employment litigation and compliance services to many of the largest corporations and government agencies in the country, and she offers a unique litigation perspective to private and public clients. Specifically, Shari has extensive experience with respect to pension issues in connection with the administration and/or investment of pension plan assets and in connection with a myriad of corporate transactions and bankrupt entities.

Ms. Wynne has served as a litigator for the Plan Benefits Security Division of the U.S. Department of Labor, where she litigated on behalf of the Secretary of Labor, breach of Title I of ERISA, fiduciary duty matters in connection with the investment and/or administration of pension plan assets. She is also very familiar with governmental affairs and the budgetary process when securing outside legal counsel and other experts.

After serving with the Labor Department, Ms. Wynne was associated with the law firms of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson, as well as McDermott, Will & Emery. She practiced employee benefits law with a focus on fiduciary issues, and other Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC") and Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") issues such as funding, diversification, compliance, tax qualification and plan termination in connection with corporate/real estate transactions.

Ms. Wynne was honored with the Labor Secretary's Exceptional Achievement Award as the co-counsel in one of the leading cases in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to the fiduciary status and obligations of plan fiduciaries; see, Reich v. Lancaster, 843 F. Supp. 194 (N.D. Tex. 1993), aff'd, 55 F.3d 1034 (5th Cir. 1995).

Ms. Wynne has participated as a Member of the Fiduciary Responsibility, Plan Termination, Mergers, Asset Transfers and Termination Insurance Committee of the Taxation, Real Property, Probate and Trust Section of the American Bar Association. Shari has co-authored several articles for the National Law Journal and the Journal of Taxation of Employee Benefits.

Ms. Wynne is a Past President of the Austin chapter of Entrepreneurs Organization, a global association of business owners. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Davis (1988) and her Juris Doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley "Boalt Hall" School of Law (1991).