Lyndsey K. Bates
Partner
As a partner at AsherKelly, Lyndsey Bates provides employee benefits, labor, and employment law advice to multiemployer fringe benefit funds, trade associations, municipal retirement and health systems, and businesses.
Lyndsey blends her practice between Taft-Hartley fund representation, ERISA litigation, and ERISA and IRC compliance.
Lyndsey has represented clients before the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR), in addition to several other state and federal courts.
Lyndsey has extensive knowledge in data security and cybersecurity compliance, including advising employee benefit plans on the DOL’s Best Practices Guidance. Ms. Bates is uniquely positioned to assist plans in preventing and responding to data breaches.
Lyndsey also has experience counseling clients on a wide range of complex employment issues—including workplace policies, handbooks, and procedures, leave laws including the Family-Medical Leave Act (FMLA), wage and hour issues, workplace harassment and discrimination, employment agreements and non-competition agreements.
Lyndsey was named a Michigan Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
- Michigan, 2012
- Ohio, 2020
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 2012
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 2015
- U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 2015
- New York, 2020