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John W. Hallowell, the revered Head of my own Ohio secondary school, once gave an address to students entitled “Know Your Own Bone.”
We were callow adolescents and the title—taken from Thoreau—sent us into gales of hysterical laughter. We wondered whether he... Read More
Our legal practice concentrates on negotiating and advising with respect to executive employment contracts and termination packages. Our clients are divided fairly evenly between our “niche” of non-profit executives in higher education and independent schools, and those CEOs and senior executives in... Read More
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Swami Iyer, on his appointment as incoming CEO of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation.
https://www.ciri.com/ceo-president-transition/
We were privileged to represent Mr. Iyer in his contract negotiations.
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Samuel Schaffer, currently
Head of Upper School at St. Albans School, who will become the Head of School at Roxbury Latin School as of July 1, 2024.
https://www.roxburylatin.org/2023/07/20/dr-sam-schaffer-will-be-roxbury-latins-12th-head-of-school/
We were privileged to represent... Read More
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, S. Sita Sonty, on her appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Space Tango LLC, effective September 1, 2023.
https://spacetango.com/latest/pressreleases/sitasontyceoannouncement/
We were privileged to represent Ms. Sonty in her contract negotiations.
At the beginning of the new academic year, it seems like a good time to review certain fundamental lessons which keep recurring in our legal practice involving executive employment agreements for the leaders of universities, colleges and independent schools:
1. Don’t... Read More
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Ivory D. Hills, currently Dean of Faculty and Assistant Head at Deerfield Academy, who will become the Head of School at St. Mark’s School as of July 1, 2024.
We were privileged to... Read More
Lest you think that the world of executive employment in academia is, in line with its non-profit educational mission, too high-minded to engage in hardball negotiation tactics, consider this gambit, which we have now seen more than once in the past year.
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Following up on our last topic, here’s the question:
How do executive compensation attorneys who regularly negotiate employment contracts for university and college presidents and heads of independent schools achieve a fair compensation package for the holders of those difficult jobs?
In... Read More
I approach this topic with a bias, which I will now disclose:
In 2023, the job of a college or university president, senior dean or head of an independent school is sufficiently difficult that there is almost no amount of money or... Read More