Schlichter, Bogard and Denton: A personal injury law firm practicing in Missouri, California, Illinois and Wisconsin: Heather Lea

union approved railroad injury disabled u.s. supreme court

email: hlea@uselaws.com

tel: 314-621-6115

fax: 314-621-7151

Practice Areas

Class Actions

Pension Plan & ERISA Litigation

Contingent Fee Commercial Litigation

Heather Lea

Before joining the firm, Heather worked for a large law firm for about 5 years specializing in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and pension plan litigation and she continues to specialize in these types of cases. She has appeared in numerous federal courts, litigating a wide variety of pension benefits and other claims under ERISA. She has broad experience in all aspects of ERISA matters and is working on complex ERISA and pension plan litigation and class actions.

Heather has also been extensively involved in outside community activities, including interviewing Holocaust survivors for the Shoah Visual History Foundation, serving as an intern for a homeless children's program and Habitat for Humanity.

Education: Rhodes College, B.A., 1994.
Washington University Law School, J.D., 2000, Order of the Coif, National Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Law Graduate Award, Scholar in Law Award, Scribes Award for outstanding published writing. Editor in Chief, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, 1999-2000.
Law Clerk, U. S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 2000-2001.

Admitted: Missouri (2001); Illinois (2002).

Author: Gustav Radbruch: An Extraordinary Philosopher, 2 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 489 (2000).

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