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Ed Adkins advises employers with respect to all facets of employee benefits and executive compensation. His experience covers tax-qualified pension, profit-sharing, ESOPs and stock bonus plans; tax-sheltered annuities; workers’ compensation; group insurance and other welfare benefit plans; and non-qualified executive compensation arrangements, including stock options, restrictive stock and supplemental executive retirement plans. Mr. Adkins’ clients range from large multi-national corporations with thousands of employees to small professional practices in all industries, as well as major hospitals, tax-exempt organizations and several local governments. Among other achievements, Mr. Adkins has successfully represented several employers before the Internal Revenue Service and obtained the re-qualification of their retirement plans through the IRS Voluntary Compliance Resolution Program, including the correction of allocation errors in a manufacturing company’s 401(k) plan covering more than 10,000 participants. He also assisted an international manufacturing company with the consolidation of 19 different 401(k) plans maintained by the company’s U.S. subsidiaries into one uniform 401(k) plan. He also prepared the plan documents for, and an analysis of the golden parachute excise tax application to, a supplemental executive retirement plan for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. Practice Areas:Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPS) & Stock Bonus Plans ERISA Compliance, Fiduciary Responsibility & Plan Asset Management Health & Welfare Plans/HIPAA Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation & Executive Compensation Stock Option & Other Equity Compensation Programs Tax-Deferred Plans for Governments & Non-Profit Organizations Tax-Qualified Pension, Savings, Profit Sharing & 401(k) Plans Bar Admissions/Court Admissions:District of Columbia Maryland Education:University of Maryland School of Law, J.D. 1972, Order of the Coif and with Honors. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, A.B. 1969.Affiliations, Associations and Special Achievements:American Bar Association: Employee Benefits Committee, Tax Section Baltimore Magazine: Listed as a Maryland Super Lawyer (2007, 2008) Chambers USA: Listed in the area of Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (2007) District of Columbia Bar Association ERISA: Trained mediator for employee benefits and executive compensation matters Maryland State Bar Association The Best Lawyers in America: (2006, 2007, 2008) Speaking Engagements:"Age Discrimination in Cash Balance Plans," Worldwide Employee Benefits Network (WEB), Baltimore, Maryland (September 2003). | 