Erin Riley

Washington

Keller Rohrback LLP
1201 Third Avenue
Suite 3400
Seattle, WA 98101

Tel: 206.224.7437

Email: eriley@kellerrohrback.com
Web: www.kellerrohrback.com

Erin Riley is a partner in Keller Rohrback’s Complex Litigation Group. Since 2001, Erin’s practice has focused on representing employees and retirees in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) actions involving defined contribution, defined benefit, and health benefit plans.

Erin served as a lead editor of Employee Benefits Law (Bloomberg-BNA) from 2018 to 2024. She has worked on numerous ERISA-related articles and amicus briefs, and frequently speaks at employee benefits conferences. Erin is a fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.

Erin earned her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where she was an editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. Prior to joining Keller Rohrback as an attorney in 2000, she worked with the firm as a summer associate in 1999.

Education

  • Gonzaga University
    B.A., cum laude, 1992, French & History
  • University of Wisconsin Law School
    J.D., cum laude, 2000, Wisconsin Law Review

Honors, Awards & Recognition

  • Best Lawyers in America®, Litigation – ERISA, Seattle, Washington, 2025 (Recognized since 2024)
  • Selected to Super Lawyers list in Super Lawyers – Washington, 2023-2024
  • Selected to Rising Stars list in Super Lawyers – Washington, 2009

Professional Associations

  • Selected to Super Lawyers list in Super Lawyers – Washington, 2024
  • American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, Fellow
  • Wisconsin State Bar Association, Member
  • King County Bar Association, Member
  • Washington State Bar Association, Member
  • Sub-Committee for the ABA Employee Benefits Committee, Plaintiffs’ Co-Chair, 2012 – 2016
  • Employee Benefits Law (Bloomberg-BNA), Chapter Editor, 2012 – 2016
  • Employee Benefits Law (Bloomberg-BNA), Senior Editor, 2016 – 2018
  • Employee Benefits Law (Bloomberg-BNA), Co-Chair, Board of Senior Editors, 2018 – present
  • Washington State Supreme Court, Pro Bono Publico Honor Roll, 2014 – present

Keller Rohrback is one of America’s leading law firms helping employees or retirees with their retirement or benefit plans. We work on a wide range of employee benefit issues. Here are just a few examples of the work we do:

Retirement plans and pensions:We frequently represent employees and retirees in cases where their plans were charging them excessive fees to save for retirement, or where their retirement savings were invested badly, or where employees were not getting paid what they were owed under their pensions.

Health care plans: We’ve represented participants in health care plans when they weren’t provided with accurate information, or were denied the benefits they were owed, or when those running the plan violated other duties they owed participants under the law.

ESOPs: An Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or ESOP, is a special kind of benefit plan. It invests primarily in the stock of the company sponsoring it. Those in charge of ESOPs must carefully value the stock and must act in the best interest of the plan participants when they use ESOPs in corporate transactions. We’ve represented participants in ESOPs when the people running their plans didn’t follow the law.

Founded in 1919, Keller Rohrback’s over 70 attorneys and over 100 staff members are based in eight offices across the country in Seattle, Denver, Missoula, New York, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, and Santa Barbara. Over the past century, our firm has built a distinguished reputation by providing top-notch representation. The Complex Litigation Group enjoys a stellar national reputation in courts across the country. We offer exceptional service and a comprehensive understanding of state and federal law nationwide. We also are well known for our ability to collaborate with co-counsel, and work together to achieve outstanding results – an essential skill in large-scale cases in which several firms represent the plaintiffs. We play well in the sandbox – not needlessly antagonizing our competitors or opponents. Instead, we earn the respect of our colleagues and our opponents through our deft handling of the endless array of complex issues and obstacles that our clients face.

Keller Rohrback’s Complex Litigation Group has a national reputation as a leading plaintiffs’ firm for large-scale, complex individual and class action cases. We represent consumers, employees, public and private investors and institutions, governments, and individuals in a wide range of fraud and misfeasance actions, including, among other areas, consumer, products liability and defects, environmental, securities, ERISA, fiduciary breach and investment mismanagement, and anti-trust. Our approach is straightforward – we represent clients who have been harmed by conduct that is wrong, and we litigate with passion and integrity to obtain the best results possible. Every case is different, but we win for the same reason: we are persuasive. When you hire us, you hire smart, creative lawyers who are skilled in court and in negotiations.