My Kim Ong

My Kim Ong is an associate in the San Francisco, California, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. Her practice focuses on ERISA litigation and employee benefits matters, where she represents plan sponsors, multiemployer plan trustees, fiduciaries, and other stakeholders in complex litigation, regulatory proceedings, and counseling matters.

Kim has experience handling a broad range of disputes arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), including fiduciary breach class actions, benefits litigation, and statutory enforcement actions involving multiemployer plans. Her work includes defending fiduciary breach claims relating to retirement plan investments, including excessive fee and stable value fund litigation, actuarial equivalence challenges to pension benefit calculations, claims under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, and disputes involving delinquent contributions and withdrawal liability. She assists clients through all phases of litigation, from pre-suit strategy through appeal. 

In addition to her litigation practice, Kim advises employers, plan sponsors, and fiduciaries on employee benefit plan design and administration, fiduciary governance, and the management of benefit claims and appeals.

Before entering law school, Kim spent more than five years in commercial banking, where she managed a portfolio of Bay Area business clients and advised closely held and middle-market companies on credit facilities, treasury management, risk mitigation, and operational initiatives.

During law school, Kim earned her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she was named Moot Court Advocate of the Year, served as Technical Editor of the University of San Francisco Law Review, and was Vice President of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.