Stumpff previously was an associate and then a partner at the New York firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he focused on the employee benefits aspects of corporate and financial transactions. Earlier in his career, Professor Stumpff served as an assistant branch chief in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel. He is a former co-chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, and is a fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. He is the author of two law school casebooks: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (Foundation Press, 2011) and Executive Compensation (Foundation Press, 2017), and co-author of Pension and Employee Benefit Law (Foundation Press, 2015, sixth edition).
