Ruby Menon received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism/English and her Juris Doctor degree from Indiana University. Her practice focuses on providing a variety of legal services to individual and institutional investors, which include public pension funds both in the United States and abroad. Ms. Menon is a member of the firm's advisory team and serves as a liaison between the firm and its individual and institutional investor clients. She provides a broad array of highly specialized legal and consulting services to retirement plans and individual investors.
Ms. Menon was the first general counsel of the Denver Employees' Retirement Plan, providing all legal services to the members of the Retirement Board and staff. Prior to that, she was the general counsel for the Indiana Public Employees' Retirement Fund. At Indiana, one of her successful projects was to help develop the legal strategy and advocacy for the State's Referendum lifting the long-standing prohibitions on the pension funds' investment in equity instruments.
As general counsel for two large multi-employee retirement plans, Ms. Menon developed expertise in many areas of employee benefits administration, including legislative and regulatory affairs, investments, tax, fiduciary compliance and plan administration. She provided day-to-day legal advice to the Board and staff, and was responsible for drafting all legislative initiatives involving benefit and investment structure, enabling the retirement plans to provide secure long-term benefits for state, public safety and municipal employees.
Ms. Menon also served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the Marion County Prosecutor's Office in Indianapolis, Indiana. In addition, she was an adjunct professor for the Indiana Wesleyan University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she taught law, ethics and communication.
She is a frequent instructor for several certificate and training programs for trustees, administrators, and other key decision makers of employee benefit plans. She frequently participates as a speaker for various organizations serving U.S. and international public pension plans.
Ms. Menon's Bar affiliations and court admissions include: District of Columbia; New York; Colorado; Indiana; and the United States Supreme Court.
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