Lyndsey K. Bates

As a partner at AsherKelly, Lyndsey Bates provides employee benefit, labor, and employment law advice to municipal retirement and health systems, multiemployer fringe benefit funds, trade associations 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, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR), in addition to several other state and federal courts.

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.

In 2022 and 2023, Lyndsey was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star.