Facing the possibility of having to pay twice the benefits available under an Employee Retirement Income Security Act-regulated pension plan, Marathon Oil Corp. turned to Haynes and Boone's labor and employment practice group for help.

Dallas partner Melissa Goodman defended Eileen Campbell, Marathon's plan administrator, in Herring and Herring v. Campbell. Two stepsons of a deceased participant in the plan filed the suit in 2009 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.