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Why is it important for executive employment attorneys who regularly advise college and university presidents and other senior leaders in higher education to understand the peculiar hiring cycle to which these presidents and deans are most often subject?
The answer is clear.... Read More
Continuing our exploration of the questions necessarily asked by an experienced executive employment attorney assessing a particular executive’s potential equity award(s):
3. What happens to the accumulated equity, vested or unvested, when the executive resigns or is terminated?
Here, too, everything... Read More
What are some of the important terms and conditions which a knowledgeable executive employment attorney looks for in reviewing an executive’s proposed equity award?
Everything begins with a detailed review and analysis of the plan documents which govern the award, in addition... Read More
My late father relished the following story, which should stand as a cautionary tale for executive employment attorneys and their clients.
A salesman was making a great deal of money on commissions. He had just finished his best year ever when the... Read More
2021, despite the continuing pandemic, produced a considerable number of significant books dealing with law and legal history, and it is a pleasure to list and discuss them here for holiday book buyers.
Although our practice concentrates on executive employment law, and... Read More
Many executives, whether senior leaders of large corporations, finance businesses, colleges, universities or secondary schools, have been trained to look for so-called “win-win” situations in all of their dealings. Spurred on by many prominent treatises on effective negotiation techniques, their executive employment... Read More
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Joseph Algrant, upon his appointment as the Head of Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale and Manhattan, New York.
https://mailchi.mp/ecfs/ecfs-head-of-school-announcement?e=100eaff292
https://www.ecfs.org/en/news/2021/10/20/5-questions-with-joe-algrant-incoming-head-of-school/
We were privileged to represent Mr. Algrant in his contract negotiations.
In our executive employment law practice we have been privileged to represent the full range of leaders in higher education, from presidents of private and public universities and colleges, some of them well-known, to excellent smaller institutions including some of the nation’s... Read More
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Jonathan Koppell, on his recent appointment as the 9th President of Montclair State University.
We were privileged to represent Dr. Koppell in his presidential contract negotiations.
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Nora Demleitner, currently the Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, on her recent appointment as the first female President of St. John’s College (Annapolis).
https://www.sjc.edu/presidential-search
We... Read More