Linda Lemel Hoseman, Partner

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Privacy and Data Security
Employee Retirement and Pension Plans
Executive Compensation
Health and Welfare Benefits
ERISA Litigation
Law School
Tulane University
JD, 1989
Law School
Illinois
Practice Contacts
Northern District of Illinois
South Carolina District Court
 
Linda Hoseman is a partner in the firm’s employee benefits and executive compensation practice.

Ms. Hoseman assists clients on a wide variety of employee benefits matters, including the design and administration of qualified retirement benefit plans and welfare benefit plans.  Ms. Hoseman also assists clients with drafting and updating such plans to comply with legislative changes.  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.


Honors and Awards

Since 2010, Ms. Hoseman has been listed as one of The Best Lawyers in America and was named an Illinois Super Lawyer in 2008 and 2009. She was also listed in 2011 for her work in Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law in Chicago’s Best Lawyers and was recommended by The Legal 500, 2011 U.S. edition.


Activities

Ms. Hoseman is a former member of the Illinois State Bar Association and served as a member of its Employee Benefits Section Council in 1998, 1999, and 2000. She also is an adjunct faculty instructor at the John Marshall Law School.


Education

Ms. Hoseman received a B.A. in Communication from Vanderbilt University in 1985, a J.D., cum laude, from Tulane University School of Law in 1989, and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1994.


Speeches and Publications

Ms. Hoseman has spoken to employers and associations on topics such as the portability provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, continuation coverage under COBRA, plan governance, and benefits issues for leased employees.  She is co-author of “Bush Administration Saves Trees:  DOL Expands Electronic Communication and Recordkeeping Safe Harbors,” Benefits Law Journal, Autumn 2002; “Formalizing Plan Governance,” Benefits Law Journal, October 1, 2001; and “The Increasing Responsibility to Make Meaningful Disclosure to Participants,” Benefits Law Journal, March 1, 2000.