Executive Employment Perspectives Blog

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,... 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

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

A major part of our practice as executive employment attorneys is the representation of college and university presidents and heads of secondary schools.

We represent these senior academic leaders when they are hired, counseling them in the negotiation of their employment agreements.... Read More

While fully acknowledging the trauma of being terminated, a knowledgeable and experienced executive employment lawyer can guide the executive, whether a corporate CEO, an executive in finance or a college or university president, through the necessary decisions which must be made --... Read More

In order to properly serve their clients, executive employment attorneys must understand the emotional power of being terminated from a top executive position. In the preceding post, I termed that experience not just unpleasant or disturbing, but actually traumatic, provoking the... Read More