Matthew B. Leppert

Matt Leppert focuses on Employee Benefits Law in the context of Taft-Hartley, multiemployer jointly administered welfare and retirement plans and training funds. For over 20 years, Matt has represented benefit plans, fiduciaries, plan sponsors, unions, and individuals in matters arising under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code including obtaining favorable determination letters, drafting and amending plan documents and summary plan descriptions, correcting plan document and administration errors, resolving plan funding issues, coordinating responses to Department of Labor, IRS, and PBGC compliance investigations and audits, negotiating service provider agreements, and negotiating and implementing plan mergers and terminations. Matt has also represented insolvent retirement plans and retirement plans that have withdrawal liability or have experienced a mass withdrawal.

Matt has presented on topics such as monitoring plan service providers, the Affordable Care Act, lifetime participation in retirement plans, HIPAA/HITECH, SECURE 2.0, and ERISA contribution/audit enforcement and withdrawal liability. Matt is a member of the American Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law Employee Benefits Committee, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, and the AFL-CIO, Union Lawyers Alliance. Matt is a Chapter Editor for the Employee Benefits Law treatise and has also authored sections on document retention for the Workplace Data Law and Litigation treatise. Matt has also been active in the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) and previously served as BAMSL’s Labor and Employment Law Section Chair. Matt received his law degree and Certificate in Health Law Studies from St. Louis University School of Law in 2003 where he served as Senior Articles Editor for the Journal of Health Law and President of the Public Interest Law Group. Matt is admitted to the bar in Missouri and Illinois, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri and the Southern District of Illinois.