Brenna Woodley

Partner

Brenna Woodley is a member of our Labor and Employment Group and Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group. She concentrates in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) litigation as well as litigation involving non-competes and other restrictive covenants. She practices in federal and state courts and before governmental agencies.

She counsels companies that contribute to multiemployer pension and welfare plans in disputes over contributions to the plan. Ms. Woodley also represents single employer plans, plan administrators and the companies that sponsor the plans in a number of ERISA cases, ranging from denied claims cases brought by a single participate to class actions.

Experience

Her class action experience includes two high-profile, breach-of-fiduciary-duty cases:

• She served as local counsel for United Airlines Employee Stock Ownership Plan Committee in an ERISA action against it in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• She was defense counsel for one of the administrators in the WorldCom ERISA class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Awards and Honors

Volunteer Service Award, Glenkirk Foundation

Education