Leslie Bassett

For 23 years, Leslie has provided efficient, creative, energized, and personalized employment and ERISA representation to clients on all sides of employment and benefit matters. She has represented sponsors and fiduciaries of employee benefit plans in complex employee benefit and ERISA litigation matters in federal and state courts throughout the country, including litigation involving breach of fiduciary duty and employer stock held in 401(k) plans. Leslie also counsels clients in connection with governmental investigations and other regulatory matters involving benefits issues and executive compensation agreements. Leslie has helped countless clients navigate employment transitions with ease, providing empathetic, effective employment strategies and solutions to executives, individuals, boards of directors, and human resources professionals. Leslie has a unique ability to evaluate a matter from a holistic perspective and to create and negotiate a solution for all involved. Perhaps equally importantly, she has counseled and resolved numerous disputes in earlier stages, preserving the goals of cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and discretion for her clients. Leslie “balances” her legal with her active single parenting of her two sons and three puppies. She can often be found transporting her tween boys to baseball fields, walking puppies in the park, or cheerfully feeding and hydrating her sons and their twenty closest friends.Leslie is active in leadership of Roswell Rotary Club and strives to live out its motto of Service Above Self.