Leigh Riley is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and chair of the firm's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice. She is also a member of the Labor & Employment Practice and the Insurance & Reinsurance and Automotive Industry Teams.
Ms. Riley focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation. In the area of employee benefits, she concentrates on welfare plans, including COBRA and HIPAA privacy rules, and retirement plans, including nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements. In the area of executive compensation, she counsels both private and public companies on establishing and administering all types of executive compensation programs, including stock options, restricted stock, phantom stock arrangements, and stock appreciation rights. She joined the firm in 1997 after practicing with the Philadelphia firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and is admitted to the Bar in both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Ms. Riley is a 1995 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She earned her bachelor's degree from Texas Christian University in 1991.
Ms. Riley has been selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2007 for her work in the field of employee benefits law.