Rhona S. Lyons

Rhona Lyons focuses on Employee Benefits Law in the context of Taft-Hartley, multiemployer jointly administered welfare and retirement plans. Rhona advises boards of Trustees on changes in the law, compliance with laws and regulations, and issues of administration and represents boards in judicial and administrative proceedings. Rhona is active in the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law Employee Benefits Committee. She was inducted into the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel in September 2016. Rhona received her law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1986 (Order of the Coif) where she was on the Law Review and published an article on environmental law. Rhona received her LLM in tax law from Washington University School of Law in 1999.

Out of the office, Rhona is a member of the Workers' Rights Board of Jobs with Justice St. Louis, on the Advisory Council for Bread and Roses, on the board of Jews United for Justice, and is a member of the Jewish Community Relations Council. She is licensed to practice law in Missouri, Illinois and Ohio (inactive status) and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Missouri, the Southern District of Illinois and the Central District of Illinois as well as the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.