Kelly A. Starr is a shareholder at Vedder Price and has practiced employee benefits and executive compensation law since joining the firm in 1995.  She counsels a variety of employers on all aspects of employee benefits law, including the design, tax qualification, legal compliance, correction, interpretation, communication and termination of broad-based employee benefit plans.  She also negotiates and structures executive employment agreements and executive compensation and benefit arrangements, including incentive compensation, deferred compensation, severance agreements and change-in-control programs, on behalf of both individual executives and companies.  Ms. Starr has experience advising boards of directors and their committees with respect to executive compensation issues.