Lloyd Dickinson, a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, advises publicly and privately held corporations, third party administrators, and plan trustees on employee benefit programs and policies. He serves as counsel to multi-employer pension and health and welfare plans, and assists frequently in the formation of Employee Stock Ownership Plans. Mr. Dickinson is a member of the firm's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and Labor & Employment Practices as well as the Automotive Industry Team. Mr. Dickinson also has experience with tax, valuation and fiduciary litigation matters. Mr. Dickinson has made numerous presentations on the issues and development of employee benefit law to legal and professional organizations, and has taught an employee benefits and executive compensation course as a part-time faculty member in the MBA program at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He is a past president of the Wisconsin Retirement Plan Professionals Ltd., a professional organization in this field. Mr. Dickinson has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and has been named the Best Lawyers® 2011 Milwaukee Employee Benefits Lawyer of the Year. He has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for over 20 years in the field of employee benefits law. In addition, he was selected for inclusion in the 2005 - 2009 lists of Wisconsin Super Lawyers®. Mr. Dickinson is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1970, his J.D. degree, cum laude, in 1974, and was elected to the Order of the Coif legal honorary society. |