Executive Employment Perspectives Blog

Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Alison Byerly, on her appointment as the 12th President of Carleton College.

https://www.carleton.edu/news/stories/alison-byerly-named-12th-president-of-carleton-college/

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

Our new executive employment clients often start their initial conversations with us by saying, “I know that I am only an ‘at will’ employee.”

They are usually correct, since these days almost every executive in America is “at will” (I can... Read More

A divided Board, where the President has strong supporters but also some vocal critics.

An intransigent superior, boss or Board Chair.

Performance reviews which are slanted, inaccurate or unfairly negative.

It is the natural tendency of senior executives, particularly college and university... Read More

At the outset of every legal engagement, our executive employment clients receive a short but important lecture from us on the nature and ramifications of the attorney-client privilege as it applies to their interactions with us as their executive employment attorneys.

Volumes... Read More

Here is a quick quiz which all clients in need of an executive employment attorney should take:

Client A is a university president for whom we have carefully negotiated an “exit package” consisting of a severance and separation agreement, aspects of which... Read More

Executive employment and compensation attorneys prefer happy and satisfied clients. These two states of mind do not, however, always go together. They do, of course, when we successfully negotiate a new contract for a college or university president or a Wall Street... Read More

At the height of the Profumo scandal in England in the early 1960’s, the young Mandy Rice-Davies (unfairly portrayed by the tabloid press as a “good time girl,” in fact Rice-Davies was a brilliant woman who later became a notable business entrepreneur)... Read More

Frequently Asked Questions

1.     Q.     Won’t the Board be put off that I am using a lawyer? Can they withdraw my offer?

A.     There are several answers to these concerns, or rather, several parts of one overall answer... Read More

Picking up on the list of reasons discussed in last week’s blog:

3. So as to Preserve the Good Relationship Between the President and the Board Which Prevails at the Outset of the President’s First Term of Office.

At the beginning... Read More

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