Nicole Diller is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice. In her practice, Ms. Diller focuses on ERISA and other employee benefit litigation, fiduciary counseling, and legal aspects of benefits and plan administration. She counsels and defends employers, financial institutions, and insurance carriers in class action and high stakes benefit litigation matters nationwide. Her clients include public and private corporations, nonprofit entities, governmental benefit plans, financial institutions, and multiemployer pension plans.

Ms. Diller advises companies on compliance with ERISA's fiduciary provisions, including use of employer stock in retirement plans, allocation of plan expenses, investment of plan assets, and prohibited transaction exemptions.

From 2007 through 2014, Nicole has been named one of the leading U.S. lawyers for business by Chambers USA, based on the views of clients, peers, and other industry professionals. Nicole was also listed for Labor and Employment–ERISA Litigation in 2014 by The Legal 500, who noted that Nicole has an “incredible ability to keep all the information of the case in her head” and “leverages her abilities to provide advice and training on each specific argument and strategy.” She was also selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer from 2006–2014.

Ms. Diller received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1991 and her B.G.S., with distinction, from the University of Michigan in 1987.

Ms. Diller is admitted to practice in California and before the following courts: the Supreme Court of California; the Second, Third, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals; the Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern Districts of California; the District of Connecticut; the District of Colorado; the Eastern District of Michigan; the District of Wisconsin; and all trial and appellate state courts in California and courts in the District of Columbia.