Lawyer Bio : Janice C. Baldwin

Janice C. Baldwin

"Jan"

Winston-Salem

Jan helps companies navigate the myriad of complex rules governing employee benefit plans and executive compensation arrangements. She devotes her time to advising large to mid-sized employers in the design, drafting, implementation and administration of tax-qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, welfare benefit plans and other complex executive compensation arrangements, including employment and change in control agreements, and incentive and stock option plans. Should questions or disputes arise, she also provides representation before the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor. Jan’s time is also spent assisting plan administrators with the review of Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs).

Jan has worked with a wide range of businesses, including:

  • Financial institutions
  • Manufacturers of high-performance fabrics and related textile products
  • Companies in dispute with or responding to an inquiry by the Internal Revenue Service or the Department of Labor
  • A wireless phone service carrier
  • Furniture manufacturing and sales companies
  • Tax-exempt organizations

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Professional Activities

Bar Associations: Forsyth County Bar Association; North Carolina Bar Association (Former Member of Tax Council 1990-95).

Admitted to bar: 1985, North Carolina.

Education

B.A., 1982, James Madison University, summa cum laude; Omicron Delta Kappa, Mortar Board Honorary Society; Who's Who is American Colleges and Universities.

J.D., 1985, Wake Forest University School of Law, cum laude, Law Review, Moot Court Board, Student Trial Bar, Who's Who is American Colleges and Universities.

Publications

"Co-author: "A recent IRS ruling enables trustees of employee stock ownership plans to vote allocated shares of securities for which they fail to receive voting instruction," published in National Law Journal (October 30, 1995).

Author: "Compensation - A Simple Concept Made Complex," published in Benefits Quarterly (Third Quarter 1992)."