Lisa Wintersheimer Michel

Lisa Wintersheimer Michel is the leader of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group.  Her practice primarily involves all aspects of qualified retirement plans, including profit sharing plans, 401(k) plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and defined benefit plans, executive compensation matters and welfare benefit plans. This includes compliance with laws including tax, labor, COBRA, HIPAA and other applicable laws, and administration and operation of all types of plans. She has worked extensively with employee benefit matters related to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other corporate transactions and has lectured on qualified retirement plans. Lisa also has served on the firm’s Board of Directors. 

Awards & Recognitions

• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
• Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2005
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
• Named to Ohio Super Lawyers
• Leadership Cincinnati, Class XXV
• Cincinnati Business Courier's Forty Under 40, Class of 2002

News

• Forty-Six Keating Muething & Klekamp Attorneys Recognized in 2013 Ohio Super Lawyers and Ohio Rising Stars
• Keating Muething & Klekamp Is Named the Top-Listed Law Firm in Ohio and Cincinnati in Numerous Areas of Law by The Best Lawyers in America 2013

Speaking Engagements

• International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists Cincinnati / Dayton Program, Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, August 2, 2012

Publications

• Legal Alert: Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Reform Law, July 5, 2012

Mentioned & Quoted

• How to Attract -- And Retain -- Staff When You Can't Pay Big Bucks, Entrepreneur.com, June 27, 2012
• INC Research to Acquire Kendle International for $15.25 per Share in Cash, Bloomberg Businessweek [www.investing.businessweek.com], May 5, 2011

Professional & Community Involvement

• Cincinnati Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Northern Kentucky Bar Association
• Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Advisory Board Member
• Ohio State Bar Association
• Dress for Success Cincinnati, former Board of Directors
• Northern Kentucky University Partnership Initiative, former Team Leader
• Notre Dame Academy, former Member, Advisory Board
• Summit Country Day, former Board of Trustees
• YWCA of Greater Cincinnati, former Board of Trustees, Finance Committee and Human Resources Committee