May 25, 2012

Diane M. Morgenthaler, Partner

  • 312-984-7676
  • dmorgenthaler@mwe.com
  • www.mwe.com

  • Diane M. Morgenthaler is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Chicago office.  Diane has designed and amended various types of retirement plans for private and public companies and for taxable and tax-exempt employers, including a master and prototype plan for an insurance industry client and various pension profit sharing, 401(k), cash balance, pension equity, age-weighted, money purchase and employee stock ownership plans.  Her practice also includes counseling and drafting supplemental executive retirement plans.

    Diane has also assisted clients in adopting flexible benefit or cafeteria plans, medical plans, severance plans and various other welfare benefits.  She has extensive experience in employee benefit issues involved in corporate acquisitions and reorganizations and in the design of employee benefits following such transactions.  She has also advised clients in litigation matters involving multi-employer withdrawal liability, fiduciary liability issues, and benefit claims.

    Diane is the immediate past national President of one of the largest U.S. employee benefit professional organizations, the Worldwide Employee Benefits Network.  She authored articles that appeared in the November/December 2000 and the July/August 2002 issues of Profit Sharing magazine, in the January/February 2004 issue of Compensation & Benefits Review and in the Winter 2005 issue of the Benefits Law Journal.  She is a co-author of the chapter “A Guide to U.S. Employee Benefits” in the Cross-Border Labour Handbook published in 2006 by the Practical Law Company.  Since 2004, Diane has been ranked by her peers as a “Leading Lawyer” in a survey published by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company.  Finally, since early 2009 Diane has been named as an Illinois Super Lawyer by Law & Politics.

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