Morgan Lewis
  • Home
  • >
  • Stanley F. Lechner

Stanley F. Lechner

Senior Counsel

With more than 30 years of experience representing corporations, associations, and multiemployer pension and health funds in labor and employment relations and litigation, Stanley F. Lechner advises on pensions and health benefits, collective bargaining, employee benefits litigation, and mergers and acquisitions. He also counsels employers regarding workforce change matters, including corporate due diligence, restructuring, and corporate transactions. He guides employers, employer associations, and trust funds on management-union relations, contract negotiations and administration, grievances and arbitrations, and compliance with US federal and state employment laws.

Extended Profile

Stan represents employers and trust funds in employment and employee benefits disputes before government agencies and in arbitrations, at preliminary injunction hearings, at trial, and before appellate courts in cases including class actions, multiparty actions, and individual suits. He also advises employers and employee benefit plans regarding labor and employment issues in bankruptcy proceedings.

His litigation experience includes cases brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Civil Rights Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and various contract- and tort-based theories.

Stan serves as co-chair of Morgan Lewis’s Labor and Employment Workforce Change Group.

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, 1983, J.D.
  • Pennsylvania State University, 1971, B.S.

Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Pennsylvania
  • US Supreme Court

Awards and Affiliations

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Labor & Employment, Law360 (2017)

Recognized, Washington, DC Super Lawyers (2013–2018)

Member, American Bar Association, Employment Law and Litigation Section

Member, District of Columbia Bar Association, Labor Relations Section

Winner, The National Law Journal’s Litigation Department of the Year – Labor and Employment (2014)

Managing Editor, Morgan Lewis on Labor and Employment Law (1996–2004)

Publications

8/27/2013 - Private Equity Fund May Be “Trade or Business” Under ERISA

3/4/2013 - Labor and Employment Issues in Corporate Transactions: Strategic Considerations and Hidden Liabilities, PLC Labor & Employment

7/3/2012 - Labor and Employment Issues in Corporate Transactions: Strategic Considerations and Hidden Liabilities

6/7/2012 - Labor & Employment Issues in Corporate Transactions: Strategic Considerations and Hidden Liabilities, Practical Law The Journal

5/16/2012 - Labor and Employment Issues for Companies Developing New Transmission or Generation Facilities

10/4/2011 - Buying Union-Staffed Companies: What Private Equity Firms Must Know and Do (a Dow Jones webinar)

News

5/30/2018 - Morgan Lewis Named DC Litigation Department of the Year for Labor and Employment by The National Law Journal

6/30/2014 - Morgan Lewis Named Washington, D.C. Labor & Employment Litigation Dept. of the Year: The National Law Journal Salutes Firm for Depth and Variety of Matters

1/30/2013 - Morgan Lewis Advises Apollo Global Management in Hostess Snack Cake Assets Acquisition

10/7/2011 - Investing in Union-Backed Companies: Not a Nightmare, LBO Wire

7/15/2011 - Morgan Lewis Serves as Co-Counsel to BHP Billiton on $12.1 Billion Acquisition of Petrohawk

Events

5/16/2012 - Labor and Employment Issues for Companies Developing New Transmission and/or Generation Facilities

10/4/2011 - Buying Union-Staffed Companies: What Private Equity Firms Must Know and Do