Ruairi McDonnell

Ruairi McDonnell is an associate with Feinstein Doyle Payne & Kravec, LLC who practices in ERISA and employee benefits, labor and employment, and class action cases.

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Ruairi McDonnell is an associate practicing in Feinstein Doyle Payne & Kravec, LLC’s class action litigation group since 2014.  Ruairi is admitted to practice law before the courts of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and the Third and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Ruairi earned  his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2013.  He served as a Research Editor on the University’s Law Review, where he published the Note  The Vice of Prudence:  Judicial Abstention and the Case of Al-Aulaqi v. Obama. He recently co-authored The Constitutional Limitations of Public Employee Pension Legislation, Revisited, The Public Lawyer, Summer 2017 (with William T. Payne, Esq. and Joel R. Hurt, Esq.)

Ruairi has represented retired workers in class actions challenging the reduction or termination of their vested retiree benefits as part of FDPK’s employee benefits practices group, as well as individual ERISA plan participants in cases challenging benefit denials, consumers in class action cases arising under the Fair Credit Reporting  Act, and employees challenging illegal pay practices under the Fair Labor Standards Act.