Stephanie Schroepfer, who joined the firm in 1987, is a partner in the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Ms. Schroepfer's practice includes matters relating to:

• Qualified defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plans
• Executive compensation
• Nonqualified deferred compensation
• ERISA
• Corporate governance
• Fiduciary responsibility
• International equity compensation and employee benefits
• Severance programs
• 409A
• 162(m)
• SEC disclosure
• Health and welfare benefit plans and fringe benefits
• Employee benefits aspects of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spin‑offs and financings
• Resolution of compliance disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Ms. Schroepfer's clients include publicly traded and private corporations in various industries (primarily energy, medicine, retail and manufacturing), publicly traded partnerships, educational institutions, hospitals, governmental entities and churches.

• American Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas - Tax Section
  • Member of Council (2007 - 2012)
  • Chair of Committee on Governmental Submissions (2010 - 2012) 
  • Vice Chair of Committee on Governmental Submissions (2008 - 2009)
  • Chair of Employee Benefits Committee (2006 - 2007)
• Houston Bar Association
• Gulf Coast Area TE/GE Council (2012)
• Southwest Benefits Association
• National Association of Stock Plan Professionals
• Lone Star Pension Council
  • Served as Founding Director

• Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits (1999 - 2012)
• Who's Who Legal: Texas, Employee Benefits (2007)

• "New Risks Posed by the Dodd-Frank Act," Recent Changes in Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, 2012 edition, Thompson Reuters
• Comment letter to Department of Treasury on behalf of the Section of Taxation of the State Bar of Texas concerning proposed changes to definition of governmental plan under Section 414(d), January 31, 2012
• "FBAR Reporting for Pension and Welfare Benefit Plans," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Briefing, May 2011
• "Section 409A Revisited: Severance Plans and Other Deferred Compensation Programs With Release Agreement Conditions May Need to Be 'Fixed'," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Alert, April 21, 2011
• Comment letter to Department of Treasury on behalf of the Section of Taxation of the State Bar of Texas concerning Section 409A Final Regulations, December 1, 2008
• "$700 Billion Dollar Bailout Bill Triggers Tax On Certain Deferred Compensation," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Briefing, October 23, 2008
• "Section 409A Final Regs and What They Mean," Fulbright ALERT, July 31, 2008
• Comment letter to Department of Treasury on behalf of the Section of Taxation of the State Bar of Texas concerning Conflict between Section 401(a)(9) (required minimum distribution) Regulations and Section 411(d)(6) (anti-cutback) Regulations, June 10, 2008
• "Executive Compensation Deduction – New IRS Ruling," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Briefing, February 25, 2008
• "Section 409A: Final Regs and What They Mean," for the Taxation Section of the State Bar of Texas, August 30, 2007
• "Section 409A Documentary Compliance Deadline Looms," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Alert, July 31, 2007
• "Section 409A Final Regs and What They Mean," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Alert, July 31, 2007
• Comment letter to Department of Treasury on behalf of the Section of Taxation of the State Bar of Texas concerning Proposed Section 409A Regulations, December 30, 2005
• "New Deferred Compensation Rules: Proposed Regulations (the other shoe drops)," December 14, 2005 
•  "FASB Mandates Stock Option Expensing," Fulbright ALERT, December 15, 2004

• "Section 409A Final Regs and What They Mean," 25th Annual Advanced Tax Law Course Cosponsored by the Taxation Section of the State Bar of Texas, Houston, Texas, August 30, 2007
• Testimony at public hearing before the Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service concerning proposed Section 409A regulations, January 25, 2006
• "New Deferred Compensation Rules: Proposed Regulations (the other shoe drops)," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. teleconference, November 2, 2005
• "New Deferred Compensation Rules: Review of Just Issued IRS Guidance," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. teleconference, December 22, 2004

1986 - J.D., The University of Texas
1982 - B.A., Rice University 

Ms. Schroepfer is admitted to practice in Texas and before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

• United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast Women's Initiative, Alex de Tocqueville Society
• Houston Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
• Member, L'Alliance Française de Houston