New Partner

IslerDare is pleased to welcome our newest Partner, Grace H. Ristuccia. Grace joins the Firm after serving as a Shareholder at Ogletree Deakins, where she practiced for eight years. Grace brings significant experience to the Firm’s thriving Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation group. Her diverse practice includes advising businesses on a broad range of compliance, administration, and plan design issues for all types of employee benefit plans, including qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, welfare plans, and multiemployer plans. Grace counsels her clients on day-to-day compliance and plan governance as well as on strategic long-term planning, funding, and creative benefit designs. She has successfully represented clients in plan audits and has negotiated favorable resolutions with the IRS, DOL, PBGC and other federal agencies.

Before joining Ogletree Deakins, Grace clerked for the Honorable Kenneth F. Ripple, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, and was an employee benefits associate at Covington & Burling. Grace earned her A.B. from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.