Edmund Emerson III

Edmund (Ed) Emerson III serves as Chair of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP’s Employment and Employee Benefits Practice Groups and practices primarily in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation. Ed also serves on the firm's Executive and Management Committees. Ed provides strategic guidance to employers, including tax-exempt organizations and governmental entities, to help them manage their most pressing employee benefits challenges. Ed represents governmental employers, boards and committees overseeing governmental plans and has extensive experience addressing the specialized needs of governmental plans, including compliance with applicable federal, state and local laws. He regularly advises plan fiduciaries and committees on fiduciary best practices and compliance and frequently provides fiduciary training programs. Clients frequently turn to Ed to help them correct plan qualification failures, operational errors, and other administrative issues under applicable IRS and DOL self-correction and voluntary correction programs. He also frequently represents clients before the IRS and DOL in connection with applicable audits, employment tax issues, and penalty assessments. Ed has also represented state sponsored 529 college savings and 529A ABLE programs, advising such programs on regulatory compliance issues and municipal securities laws.

As a GAPPT presenter, Ed has received information regarding educational instructional methods and adult learning processes.

Education: Mercer University, B.A. and B.B.A, cum laude, 1997 | William Mitchell College of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2000