401(k) Plans Manual Authors
Our manuals are written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys.
You’ll find their expert analysis and commentary to be invaluable.
Editor/Contributing Author
Diane L. Baldwin (since 2002). Ms. Baldwin is a Senior Editor at EBIA. Ms. Baldwin has practiced employee benefits law for twenty years in the Minneapolis area, as both outside and in-house counsel for multi-national corporations. She has taught employee benefits as an adjunct professor at William Mitchell College of Law and graduated cum laude in 1986 from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was an editor for the Wisconsin Law Review.
Contributing Authors
Stuart C. Harris (since 1994). Mr. Harris is a partner in the Portland office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Mr. Harris represents employers, association plans, insurers, and service providers in connection with the design, structure, and interpretation of retirement, welfare benefit plans, and deferred compensation arrangements. He received his J.D. degree cum laude in 1986 from Cornell Law School.
Kurt E. Linsenmayer (since 1998). Mr. Linsenmayer is a partner in the Seattle office of Perkins Coie LLP, the largest law firm in the Pacific Northwest. He specializes in helping employers with their compensation and benefit arrangements, including 401(k) plan design and administration. He received his J.D. degree in 1989 from Seattle University School of Law.
Cynthia A. Van Bogaert (since 2000). Ms. Van Bogaert is a partner in the Boardman Law Firm LLP of Madison, Wisconsin, where she specializes in all aspects of the design and administration of 401(k) plans, other employee benefit plans, and executive compensation arrangements. She has served as National President of the Worldwide Employee Benefits (WEB) Network and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1982.
John W. Haine (since 2004). Mr. Haine is a shareholder at Kelly, Hannaford & Battles, P.A., a Minneapolis law firm that practices primarily in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. In addition to giving 401(k) plan advice to plan sponsors and trustees, Mr. Haine’s practice includes defined benefit, 403(b), nonqualified, stock, and stock option plans. He graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1983.
Contributor
Craig R. Pett (since 1999). Mr. Pett is a partner in the Atlanta office of Alston & Bird LLP, where he specializes in assisting clients identify and correct 401(k) plan compliance errors. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor teaching Employee Benefits at Emory Law School. Mr. Pett graduated cum laude from Brigham Young University Law School in 1985.
Past Contributors
Thomas P. McCormick (Editor/Contributing Author, 1994—1999). Mr. McCormick is the Founder of EBIA and is currently a Contributing Author to EBIA’s Cafeteria Plans manual.
Cheryl Musselman-Brown (Editor/Contributing Author, 1999—2002). Ms. Musselman-Brown is EBIA’s Vice President and Publisher and is a Contributing Author to EBIA’s HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security manual.
