Linda Hoseman > Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
2 NORTH LASALLE STREET
SUITE 1700
CHICAGO, IL 60602
ILLINOIS
United States
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Work Department

Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Position

Partner

Career

Linda L. Hoseman assists clients on a wide variety of employee benefit matters, including the design and ongoing administration of qualified retirement benefit plans and welfare benefit plans. Her practice also focuses on ensuring that retirement plans and health and welfare plans operate in a cost-effective manner that complies with legislative changes.

Linda also assists clients with drafting and updating such plans to comply with legislative changes including health care reform. She has experience handling the ERISA aspects of private equity and other corporate transactions, as well as performing ERISA review of real estate transactions involving plan assets.

She has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America each year since 2010, as an Illinois Super Lawyer on six separate occasions, and by The Legal 500 US and Chicago’s Best Lawyers for Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law.

Education

  • New York University School of Law (LL.M., 1994)
  • Tulane University (J.D., 1989), cum laude
  • Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1985)

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design

The Chicago-based team at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP advises clients on a range of benefit and compensation plans, as well as issues including IRS and DOL audits, compliance with tax and ERISA requirements, and large multiemployer arrangements. The group also competently handle complex and emerging issues, such as travel expense benefits in the wake of Dobbs vs Jackson, fertility, paternity and maternity benefits, and advising on the implications of SECURE 2.0. Andrew Douglass joined from Reed Smith LLP in May 2022, adding extensive knowledge of the financial and legal considerations that concern qualified and nonqualified retirement plans. Team head Patricia Cain is particularly active in the financial and manufacturing sectors, advising clients on the design and implementation of pension, health and welfare plans, while Jeffrey Bakker helps businesses understand their critical fiduciary duties as well as preparing their employment and separation agreements. Linda Hoseman focuses on retirement and welfare plans, ensuring they comply with legislative and regulatory change.