Porter Wright Washington D.C. attorney McHugh appointed to Washington Ireland Program Board of Directors

Rich McHugh, an attorney in Porter Wright's Labor and Employment Department in the firm's Washington D.C. office, was recently appointed to the Board of Directors for the Washington Ireland Program.

The Washington-Ireland Program for Service and Leadership (WIP), is a six-month program of personal and professional development that brings outstanding university students from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to Washington, DC for summer work placements and leadership training. The program begins and ends with practical service in Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Rich is Of Counsel at Porter Wright where he brings his 30 years of experience in all areas of employee benefits law to benefit his clients. His experience includes qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, ESOPs and health and welfare benefit plans, with considerable experience handling employee benefit plan issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and dispositions.