Angela M. Bohmann Chair of Leonard, Street and Deinard's Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group

In her 30 years of experience, Angela has worked on qualified pension plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, welfare benefit plans, fringe benefit plans and executive compensation. She is a frequent writer and lecturer on employee benefits topics.

Employers come in many shapes and sizes, and Angela has assisted all of them. She works with public companies on their defined benefit pension plans and cash balance plans, as well as their executive compensation and equity plans. She works with small employers on retirement plans that are focused on benefits for owners as well as employees, and she has assisted nonprofit entities with the special types of benefits available to them, for example, 403(b) plans and 457 plans. Angela has advised employers on their COBRA, HIPAA and FMLA compliance. She is working with clients to comply with the new health care reform legislation and assists them in changing compliant wellness programs. Angela also has extensive experience with benefit plans in mergers and acquisitions.

Angela has been recognized for more than ten years as one of The Best Lawyers in America with a special emphasis in employee benefits. She is regularly named a Super Lawyer®, as noted in Minnesota Law & Politics magazine, including as one of the Top 100 Women Minnesota Super Lawyers in 2009. Corporate Counsel magazine also recognized her as one of the top attorneys in ERISA and employee benefits in its nationwide listings.

Prior to practicing law, Angela was a judicial clerk to the late Honorable 
James E. Doyle of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

Professional and Civic Activities

• Member, Great Lakes Tax Exempt/Government Entities (TE/GE) Council
• Member, Midwest Pension Conference
• Member and past president, Minneapolis Pension Council