The National Association of Public Pension Attorneys, NAPPA, is a professional and educational organization. Created in 1987, its membership consists exclusively of attorneys who represent public pension funds. Its purpose is to provide educational opportunities and informational resources for its member attorneys.

NAPPA organizes and conducts an annual educational conference the end of each June designed to provide its’ members an opportunity to meet others in the same practice grappling with the same legal problems with which they are facing and to exchange ideas and experiences regarding those legal issues. The conference begins on a Tuesday afternoon with a session for new attorneys in the field and concludes with a business lunch on Friday. Continuing Education Credit is available and usually runs from 15 to 24 hours including 1.5 hours of ethics. The program consists of sessions on ethics/fiduciary, federal and state legislation, state litigation, investment issues, benefit issues, securities litigation as well as other pertinent and timely issues.

Each February, Section meetings are held in Washington, D.C. which allows members to participate in more extensive discussion of specialized areas of pension law. These sections are Benefits, Fiduciary & Plan Governance, Investment and Tax.
A number of speakers are staffers from Capitol Hill. NAPPA members are invited to any or all of the sections.

NAPPA publishes a quarterly newsletter, The NAPPA Report, which keeps the membership abreast of the most recent occurrences in the field.

NAPPA’s webpage, www.nappa.org, has some areas that are for our membership only and are therefore password protected. In addition to the website, there is a networking tool called the Listserve. NAPPA members may send inquires to the Listserve which is then forwarded to the entire membership. Interested members may reply to the Listserve e-mail. This has proven for NAPPA members to be a very valuable asset.

NAPPA has a nine member Executive Board. Board members serve terms of three years with a two-term limit. The staff includes the Administrative Officer, Administrative Assistant and Administrative Aide.

For further information regarding NAPPA, you may go to the website www.nappa.org and obtain membership information under the Administration button. Or you may contact the NAPPA office at (916) 429-2545 or e-mail Pam Anderson at pama@nappa.org or Nannette Henderson at nannette@nappa.org.

NAPPA
930 Florin Road, Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95831
(916) 429-2545, FAX (916) 429-8616