Diane Moore Heitman

Attorney
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Diane Moore Heitman was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.  She received her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from St. Louis University in 1993 and her Juris Doctor cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law in 1998.  During law school, Ms. Heitman received the Dean's Scholarship for academic performance and served as a staff editor for the St. Louis-Warsaw Transatlantic Law Journal.  She was inducted into the Order of the Woolsack, an honor bestowed on those law students graduating in the top 10% of their class. 

Following law school, Ms. Heitman served a two-year term as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Lawrence Mooney, Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District.  She joined Korein Tillery in August 2000.  Ms. Heitman is admitted to practice in Missouri, Illinois and California.  She has earned a "BV" Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating, which is the highest rating available to attorneys with less than 10 years experience.  Ms. Heitman focuses her practice on class action litigation, primarily in the areas of ERISA pension and profit sharing law and the federal "junk fax" law. 

Ms. Heitman was appointed class counsel in three junk fax class actions that collectively resulted in settlements worth $24.5 million - Gans v. Seventeen Motors, Inc. (St. Clair County, Illinois), Gans v. Leiserv, Inc. (St. Louis County, Missouri) and Fun Services v. AMF Bowling (Jackson County, Missouri).  She acts as class counsel in Brentwood Travel v. DCT Enterprises (St. Louis County, Missouri) and Karen S. Little, LLC v. Brinker Missouri, Inc. (St. Louis County, Missouri) - two pending junk fax class actions that are in the process of settling.

Ms. Heitman is co-counsel for the plaintiff in Caufield v. Colgate-Palmolive Company Employees' Retirement Income Plan (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana) and Fry v. Exelon Corporation Cash Balance Pension Fund (U.S. District Court for Northern District of Illinois) - two putative ERISA "whipsaw" class actions challenging the methodology by which cash balance pension plans calculate the lump sum pension distributions of their participants.  She is also co-counsel for the plaintiff in Boeckman v. A.G. Edwards, Inc. (U.S. District Court for Southern District of Illinois), a putative class action alleging that defendant breached its fiduciary duties to 401(k) plan participants under ERISA by failing to consider lower cost investment options for its plan platform.