Executive Employment Perspectives Blog

As executive employment attorneys with a concentration in higher education contracts, we have, over the past decade, represented dozens of college and university presidents in negotiating (or helping them negotiate) their contracts when they are hired.

Many of them were first-time... Read More

As executive employment and compensation lawyers, we are asked to render advice to clients who are going through employment transitions. They are being hired or fired, or facing ongoing challenges and changes to their executive work life.

As every experienced lawyer knows,... Read More

As executive employment lawyers, we are familiar with the ordinary ups and downs of hiring and firing in the sectors we serve: higher education, finance, media and industry.

These times are anything but ordinary. The pandemic, political and economic turmoil, and general... Read More

Our executive employment law practice gave us a vantage point from which to view the effects of the pandemic on our nation’s leaders in higher education, the presidents of American colleges and universities.

It was not a pretty picture.

Carefully formulated budgets,... Read More

The year of the pandemic shut-in has opened up even more time for reading (never enough time for reading!). Clients and friends of our executive employment law practice have kindly claimed to enjoy my annual selections, so here we go again, a... Read More

Continuing with our last blog topic:

7.     Most employment law plaintiffs lose. This is a fact of legal life which both plaintiffs’ and defendants’ lawyers do not like to speak about, since it is bad for business, but I believe the... Read More

Much of our legal work as executive employment attorneys consists of negotiating individual executive employment agreements and offer letters. These negotiations take place when an executive is being hired or when his or her initial employment is being extended or expanded. These... Read More

As executive employment attorneys, we help our clients, whether in finance, higher education, media or the other industry sectors we serve, negotiate their most important employment agreements, when they are hired, when they are promoted or changing responsibilities, and when they are... Read More

When asked by some reporter the secret of his success, Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Gomez famously replied, “Clean living and a fast outfield.”

As executive employment lawyers, the foundation for our clients’ success, if somewhat less colorful than that of the... Read More

After almost half a century as a practicing lawyer, I am skeptical of justice in the abstract. In my experience, justice is achieved in particular situations through detailed effort, care and attention to individual facts, which is why I am waiting to... Read More