Elizabeth Wilson Vaughan is an associate in the ERISA Litigation Group. Her practice experience includes assisting with the defense of 401(k)/employer stock-drop class actions and claims against third-party administrators, as well as individual ERISA claims for short-term disability benefits, long-term disability benefits and life insurance benefits.

In 2010, Ms. Vaughan graduated, summa cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Law. She was a member of the National Moot Court team and received the Susan B. Devitt National Moot Court Award in recognition of her work on the team. Ms. Vaughan won the prestigious Ray H. Jenkins Trial Competition and the Advocates’ Prize Moot Court Competition in her third year of law school. In honor of her overall moot court experience, Ms. Vaughan also won the Judge James M. Haynes Prize and the McClung Medal. She was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Order of the Barristers. In 2007, Ms. Vaughan graduated, summa cum laude, with her Bachelor of Arts in college scholars, with a concentration in public policy and new destination Latino immigration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and named a Torchbearer, the highest award given by the university.