Casey K. Fleming is an associate at Foley & Lardner LLP where she focuses her practice on employee benefits, executive compensation, and related issues pertaining to implementing and maintaining retirement and welfare plans. Ms. Fleming's employee benefits work includes advising private and public employers in the design and administration of traditional defined benefit pension, profit sharing and Code section 401(k) retirement plans; Code section 403(b) tax-deferred annuity plans; and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Ms. Fleming also assists employers with matters related to health and welfare benefit plans, such as issues related to COBRA continuation coverage, HIPAA privacy and portability rules, and the application of the new health care reform laws.
In addition to her traditional employee benefits work, Ms. Fleming frequently advises clients on employee benefits and executive compensation issues arising in merger and acquisition transactions.
Ms. Fleming is an active contributor to Foley's Legal News Alert: Employee Benefits and frequent speaker on Foley's Employee Benefits Broadcasts, which report on recent developments in employee benefits and ERISA law.
Ms. Fleming earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from Washington and Lee University School of Law. While in law school, she was involved with the Community Legal Practice Center, a clinic which provides free legal representation to indigent clients. Ms. Fleming earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sweet Briar College where she graduated as the Valedictorian of her class.
Ms. Fleming is a member of the firm's Associate's Committee and Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and Labor & Employment Practices. She is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and is a member of the American Bar Association, Wisconsin Bar Association and Milwaukee Bar Association.