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practice accolades

Labor & Employment

The American Lawyer Magazine's Litigation Department of the Year – Labor and Employment Law Finalist 2004, Winner 2006, Finalist 2008, Finalist 2010, and Finalist 2012

Listed in the highest tier for National Labor and Employment Practice in Chambers USA 2011

Ranked in the top tier by The Legal 500 for Labor and Employment Litigation, ERISA Litigation, Labor-Management Relations, and Workplace and Employment Counseling (2011)

Ranked, National Tier 1: Employment Law – Management, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2010)

Named one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year (2010)

Ranked #1 for "Most Prestigious" Labor and Employment Practice, Vault 2012 Associate Survey

ERISA Litigation

Listed in the highest tier for National ERISA Litigation Practice in Chambers USA 2011

honors + affiliations

ERISA Litigation Editor, Bender's California Labor and Employment Bulletin (2007–present)

Member, Advisory Panel, American Bar Association 

Benefit Committee Member, Legal Momentum (2007)

Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2009–2011)

Listed, Northern California Super Lawyer (2006–2011)

Vice Chair, Employee Benefits Committee, American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, (2003–2005)

bar admissions

  • California
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Nicole A. Diller
Partner


Email: ndiller@morganlewis.com
San Francisco
One Market, Spear Street Tower
San Francisco, CA 94105-1596
Phone: 415.442.1312
Fax: 415.442.1001

Nicole Diller is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice. In her practice, Ms. Diller focuses on ERISA and other employee benefit litigation, fiduciary counseling, and legal aspects of benefits and plan administration. She counsels and defends employers, insurance carriers, financial institutions and third-party administrators in class action and individual benefit litigation matters nationwide. Her clients include public and private corporations, governmental benefit plans, financial institutions, multiemployer pension plans and nonprofit entities.

Ms. Diller advises companies on compliance with ERISA's fiduciary provisions, including use of employer stock in retirement plans, allocation of plan expenses, investment of plan assets, and prohibited transaction exemptions.

Ms. Diller received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1991 and her B.G.S., with distinction, from the University of Michigan in 1987.

Ms. Diller is admitted to practice in California and before the following courts: the Supreme Court of California; the Second, Third, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals; the Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern Districts of California; the District of Connecticut; the District of Colorado; the Eastern District of Michigan; the District of Wisconsin; and all trial and appellate state courts in California and courts in the District of Columbia.

education

  • Stanford Law School, 1991, J.D.
  • University of Michigan, 1987, B.G.S., With Distinction