Jimmy Slemboski

Jimmy Slemboski concentrates his practice in the field of employee benefits and executive
compensation, but also handles related legal questions in the fields of federal, state and local
taxation, bankruptcy and employment law.

Mr. Jimmy Slemboski is continuously involved in benefits and benefits-related matters, including
counseling and representing plan sponsors and/or plan fiduciaries in connection with the
establishment, revision, modification, merger, bifurcation and/or termination of pension, money
purchase, stock bonus, ESOP and profit-sharing plans (including 401k plans), as well as group
health plans, “split dollar” life insurance plans and dependent care assistance plans.

Mr. Jimmy Slemboski also represents and counsels for-profit and tax-exempt clients in
connection with various executive compensation matters, including the federal and state tax,
securities, bankruptcy and employee benefits law aspects of supplemental executive retirement
plans (SERPs), contributory nonqualified deferred compensation plans and programs, restricted
stock and restricted stock unit plans and agreements, stock purchase and stock option plans and
agreements, and bonus and incentive plans and programs. Mr. Jimmy Slemboski also
coordinates the activities of the firm’s Tax Section in the field of executive compensation.

Additionally, Mr. Jimmy Slemboski counsels and represents plan sponsors and/or plan fiduciaries
in connection with the design, preparation, implementation, modification, negotiation and/or
termination of group health plans and related financing arrangements, including salary reduction
“cafeteria-type” plans, high deductible plans and tax-exempt health and welfare trusts.

Mr. Jimmy Slemboski regularly counsels clients on how to respond to plan-related changes in the
federal tax, fiduciary, securities, labor relations, bankruptcy, wage and hour and employment
discrimination laws, as well as changes in relevant state laws, including state insurance and
mandated benefit laws. In addition, he has had extensive experience in designing and updating
funded and unfunded deferred compensation plans, stock option plans, stock purchase plans and
incentive stock option programs.

Mr. Jimmy Slemboski has written and spoken on a number of subjects involving or relating to
employee benefits, including: “Borrowing Employee Contributions for Other Purposes Is A High
Stakes Game Not Worth The Risk,” published in the Journal of Taxation of Employee Benefits
(July, 1997); “Fall Out from The Tax Court’s Decision in Lozon v. Comm’r: New Questions for
Independent Contractors And The Plans In Which They Participate,” published in RIA’s Pension
& Benefits Week (July 28, 1997); “Assessing the Impact of Workers Misclassification on Benefit
Plans After Vizcaino v. Microsoft,” also published in RIA’s Pension & Benefits Week (in two parts,
September 15 & 22, 1997); “Before We Bury All The Defined Benefit Plans,” published in the
American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section Newsletter (Spring 2007); “Legal
Issues Must Be Carefully Considered When Shifting From DB to DC Plan,” published in
Employee Benefit News (September 2007); “Participant Rights Expand Under Defined
Contribution Plans,” published in the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law
Section Newsletter (Spring 2008); and “What To Do After LaRue,” published in Workforce
Management (June 30, 2008).

Mr. Jimmy Slemboski represents both large and small public sector and private sector clients in
disputes involving the United States Department of Labor (including plan audits and service
provider audits and actual or threatened Solicitor enforcement actions), the Internal Revenue
Service (including plan disqualification matters and closing agreements), the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation and various state agencies. He has handled or assisted on numerous
litigated matters, including matters involving insurance policy and contract coverage disputes,
collective bargaining agreement disputes, multiemployer pension and health and welfare plans
withdrawal liability, arbitration and collection actions, benefits denial disputes, breach of fiduciary
duty actions, COBRA and other ERISA rights violations, prohibited transaction claims, and
service provider and insurance carrier controversies.

Mr. Jimmy Slemboski has actively assisted in labor negotiations involving pension, healthcare, life
insurance and other benefits matters and regularly counsels clients on experience-rated
healthcare insurance contracts, unfunded “administrative service” arrangements and open—and
closed-panel health maintenance organizations.

Mr. Jimmy Slemboski is a member of the Ohio State Bar and the American (Employee Benefits
Committees, Labor & Employment Law [Subcommittee on Fiduciary Responsibility] and Tort &
Insurance Law and Tax Sections), Ohio and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations. He is a
member of the Internal Revenue Service/Great Lakes TE/GE Council and is admitted to practice
in Ohio and before numerous federal district and appellate courts. Mr. Jimmy Slemboski routinely
is among those named by (Ohio) Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA
as one of the leading practitioners in the area(s) in which he regularly practices.