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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
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Michaele Whelan, on her recent appointment as the 9th President of Wheaton College.
We were privileged to represent Dr. Whelan in her presidential contract negotiations.
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 blog, I termed that experience not just unpleasant or disturbing, but actually traumatic, provoking the same... Read More
Congratulations to our client, Brad Carson, on his recent appointment as the 21st President of the University of Tulsa.
https://utulsa.edu/tu-welcomes-president-brad-carson/
We were privileged to represent President Carson in his contract negotiations.
As executive employment lawyers, the daily work of our practice is concentrated on counseling executives who are being hired or fired. The emotional climate of those two legal tasks could hardly be more different.
Executives being hired, particularly when they are recruited... Read More
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Swami Iyer, on his recent appointment as President, Aerospace Systems, of Virgin Galactic.
We were privileged to represent Mr. Iyer in the contracting process.
The balmy summer weather makes me philosophical, and that means heading back to the basics. Listed below are those practical rules that, over many years as executive employment attorneys, we have found consistently best serve our clients in a world of contested... Read More
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