Liz Masson, Esq. is Senior Counsel in Hanson Bridgett's San Francisco office. Her practice focuses on representing public and private employee benefit plan sponsors and fiduciaries on all aspects of compliance with the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, and various federal and state labor and employment laws. She has experience working with governmental and private employers, including public sector retirement systems and active employee and retiree health plan sponsors, in all areas of plan design, tax-qualification, and administration. She also has experience advising multiemployer plans and contributing employers, and other collectively bargained plan sponsors. She served as a law clerk for the National Labor Relations Board's Division of Judges, and as a legal extern with Region 20 of the National Labor Relations Board. Ms. Masson holds a Juris Doctor from University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Boulder.