Linda Griffey
Partner
Linda Griffey is a partner in O'Melveny's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Linda represents employers in the design, implementation, and administration of deferred compensation plans, stock option and other equity-based incentive compensation plans, bonus plans, qualified and non-qualified pension and profit-sharing plans, welfare benefit plans, employment agreements, severance arrangements, change of control agreements, and other executive compensation and employee benefits arrangements.
Her practice also includes advising clients on compensation and benefits issues in connection with IPOs, mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions. She has represented major corporations, compensations committees, management groups, and individual executives with respect to executive compensation and benefit matters.
Professional Activities
Former President, Organization of Women Executives; Western Pension & Benefits Conference, Los Angeles Chapter; Los Angeles Duke Bar Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association Employee Benefits Committee
Chair, Distribution Subcommittee of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association
Member, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel; American Law Institute; Taxation Sections and Employee Benefits Committees of American Bar Association, California State Bar and Los Angeles County Bar Association; Organization of Women Executives; Steering Committee for Western Pension & Benefits Conference
Author and Lecturer, Employee benefits and compensation subjects for the American Bar Association; American Compensation Association; Los Angeles Benefits Conference; National Employment Law Institute; Practicing Law Institute; Prentice Hall Law & Business Seminar; USC Tax Institute; Western Pension & Benefits Conference and others
Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
Honors, Honorary Life Member of Western Pension & Benefits Conference; Chambers USA leading lawyer (2006, 2007, 2008); Named as one of "The Best Lawyers in America" (2009); Recognized as a Southern California "Super Lawyer" in surveys conducted by Law & Politics Media Inc. and published in Los Angeles magazine (2006, 2007, 2008).