Lindsey H. Chopin

Lindsey H. Chopin is a principal in the New Orleans, Louisiana, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. and a member of the firm’s ERISA Complex Class Action, Employee Benefits and Class Action groups.

Lindsey focuses her practice on the defense of complex ERISA class-actions filed against public and private single employer ERISA plan sponsors and fiduciaries. She has litigated a wide variety of class action claims, including defined contribution plan fee and investment claims, complex health plan class actions, including tobacco surcharge litigation, stock drop claims, defined benefit mortality assumption claims, and “church plan” claims.

Lindsey is the current employer-side co-chair for the American Bar Association’s Employee Benefits Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section. She is also a senior editor of Chapter 15 of Bloomberg BNA’s Employee Benefits Law treatise and a contributing author to the ERISA Fiduciary Answers Book. Apart from these activities, Lindsey has authored numerous ERISA and class action litigation-related articles and speaks frequently on ERISA and class action litigation issues.

Prior to entering private practice, served as a term clerk for the Honorable Carl J. Barbier in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Before her legal education and career, Lindsey was a teachNOLA fellow and taught high school French in New Orleans’ public schools.