Executive Employment Perspectives Blog

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Just as we seem to be emerging from two years of the pandemic, and starting to feel that, with vaccinations and new treatments, not every diagnosis of COVID-19 need be a sentence of serious illness or even death,... Read More

As executive employment attorneys who concentrate on negotiating the contracts for college and university presidents, deans and provosts, and the heads of independent schools, we hear many of the same questions by these academic leaders as they prepare for contract negotiations. They... Read More

Congratulations to our client, Dr. Robert P. Kirshner, Chief Program Officer for Science at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Clowes Professor of Science emeritus at Harvard University, on his appointment as Executive Director of the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory... Read More

Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Deborah Preston, on her recent appointment as President of Mercer County Community College.

https://www.mccc.edu/pr/General/2022/New_President_Announcement.html

We were privileged to represent Dr. Preston in her contract negotiations.

Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Sherri Cohen, on her recent appointment as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Breakout Capital Partners LP.

We were privileged to represent Ms. Cohen in the contracting process.

Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Jill M. Baren, on her recent appointment as the 14th President of Lake Forest College.

https://www.lakeforest.edu/about-us/announcing-the-fourteenth-president

We were privileged to represent Dr. Baren in her presidential contract negotiations.

Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Andrew Chappell, upon his appointment as Head of The Derryfield School in Manchester, New Hampshire.

https://www.derryfield.org/community/new-head-of-school

We were privileged to represent Mr. Chappell in his contract negotiations.

Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Abra Bush, on her recent appointment as Dean of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/abra-k.-bush-of-the-peabody-institute-announced-as-dean-of-iu-jacobs-school-of-music.php

We were privileged to represent Dr. Bush in her contract negotiations.

Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Jermaine F. Williams, on his recent appointment as President of Montgomery College.

https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/about-mc/office-of-the-president/index.html

We were privileged to represent Dr. Williams in his presidential contract negotiations.

Marty Latz, one of my favorite negotiation gurus, recently wrote a fascinating blog about the failure of negotiations to avoid the war in Ukraine. One of Latz’s salient points was that Vladimir Putin, who only understands crude power as leverage in a... Read More