Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Jay M. Bernhardt, on his recent appointment as President of Emerson College.
https://emerson.edu/presidential-search
We were privileged to represent Dr. Bernhardt in his contract negotiations.
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Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Sean Decatur, currently President of Kenyon College, on his recent appointment as new President and CEO of American Museum of Natural History.
https://www.amnh.org/about/press-center/sean-m-decatur-new-president-amnh
We were privileged to represent Dr. Decatur in his contract negotiations.
Tips and Trends in Academic Employment – Part 1
As executive employment attorneys representing college and university presidents, deans, provosts and other senior administrators in higher education, as well as the heads of independent secondary schools, we have noticed certain significant changes in the hiring landscape from even five years ago.
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Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Strom C. Thacker, on his recent appointment as the seventh President of Pitzer College.
We were privileged to represent Dr. Thacker in his contract negotiations.
Beyond Privacy to Confidentiality: Academic Leaders and the Attorney-Client Privilege – Part 2
It is not only attorneys who are involved with potential or actual litigation who should be concerned with preserving the attorney-client privilege between them and their clients.
Executive employment attorneys who represent college and university presidents and heads of school in contractual... Read More
Beyond Privacy to Confidentiality: Academic Leaders and the Attorney-Client Privilege – Part 1
A recent academic scandal involved the dismissal of the president of a major public university who for several years had been having a sexual relationship with a subordinate employee. The relationship was fully documented in hundreds of email messages.
What perhaps was... Read More
Housing Matters in Contracts for College and University Presidents and Independent School Heads
Corporate CEOs generally do not receive housing as part of their compensation packages unless they are required to work internationally, presumably for a limited period of time.
It is different in the academic world, as executive employment lawyers who practice in the... Read More
No Tenure, No Contract: The Importance of Tenure and “Retreat Rights” for College and University Presidents — Part 2
In Part 1 of this topic, I described the importance which we, as executive employment attorneys working in higher education, place on tenure and “Retreat Rights” as an essential term and condition of the contract of a college or university president.
Accordingly,... Read More
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Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Sarah Willie-LeBreton, currently Provost and Dean at Swarthmore College, on her appointment as the 12th President of Smith College commencing in July 2023.
https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/presidential-announcement/letter
We were privileged to represent Dr. Willie-LeBreton in her contract... Read More
No Tenure, No Contract: The Importance of Tenure and “Retreat Rights” for College and University Presidents — Part 1
Executive employment lawyers who practice in the area of higher education understand from experience that there are a number of sections in the contract of a college or university president which would not appear in the contract of an executive in the... Read More