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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#003399" alink="#000000" vlink="#660000"> <center><table width=468 border=0> <tr><td><img src="images/logoBanner180x165.gif" align=left height=165 width=180 alt="Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Tax Page [11K]"> <br clear=left><br><br></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="http://www.pillsburylaw.com" target="_top"><b>Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman <font size=-1>LLP</font></b></a> is a United States law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, Shanghai and Tokyo as well as Northern Virginia, Houston, Texas and San Diego, Sacramento, Palo Alto and Orange County, California.<p> <font size =-1>This material is presented as a World Wide Web demonstration by the tax department of <a href="http://www.pillsburylaw.com" target="_top">Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP</a>. <A HREF="mailto:comments@pmstax.com">Comments</A> are welcome on the design or content of this material. <noscript><b>If you find any of our material contained within another site's frames, we ask that you <a href="http://www.pmstax.com/index.shtml" target="_top">use this link</a> to break out.</b></noscript></font><p><hr>   <h4>Latest Items</h4><p> Our March 2008 Tax Bulletin, containing <a href="./gen/162m0803.shtml" target="_top">IRS 162(m) Ruling Requires Review of Incentive Pay Arrangements</a> (9K), and <a href="./gen/larue0803.shtml" target="_top">Supreme Court Decision May Spur Individual and Class Actions Against ERISA Fiduciaries for Defined Contribution Plans</a> (14K). 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