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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). | 