Julie M Edmond

Julie Edmond is a partner in the employee benefits practice. She has extensive experience counseling and litigating in the employee benefits area, including traditional defined benefit, cash balance, 401(k), profit-sharing and money purchase pension plans; executive compensation and § 409A; § 403(b) plans, § 457 plans and other plans for tax-exempt organizations; ESOPs; cafeteria plans; VEBAs and self-insured medical plans and other welfare plans. Her experience includes plan selection, formulation and drafting, regulatory compliance, audits, voluntary compliance, prohibited transactions and fiduciary duty requirements, separate line of business issues, use and handling of employee benefits and benefit plans in corporate transactions, and ERISA litigation. REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS Guidance on plan design, restructuring and implementation for publicly traded and privately held companies, tax-exempt organizations, unions and multiemployer plans. Guide employer and union sponsors of tax-qualified and other employee benefit plans through U.S. Department of Labor and IRS investigations and audits, correction of operational and document errors and potential ERISA violations. Advised numerous companies on employee benefit aspects of corporate transactions, including stock and assets sales and acquisitions and corporate mergers. Provided comprehensive guidance to investment advisors on ERISA aspects of broker-dealer and investment advisor relationships, ERISA prohibited transactions and current legislation. HONORS AND RANKINGS Best Lawyers in America for Employee Benefits (2007-2013) Best Lawyers in America for Litigation - ERISA (2012-2013) Washington DC Super Lawyers, Employee Benefits/ERISA (2013) PRO BONO Represent battered women in U Visa and Violence Against Women Act cases. Advise schools and other tax-exempt organizations on employee benefit matters. PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES "Untangling the Thicket: The Effects of Informal Communications on Participants' Rights Under ERISA Plans," Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance (Winter 1997), Co-Author "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Scrutinizing Fiduciaries's Communications to ERISA Plan Participants," Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance (Summer 1997), Co-Author "New Regulations on Application of FICA Taxes to Nonqualified Deferred Compensation," Tax Notes (05/27/1996), Co-Author