Serving executives in higher education, finance, media and industry throughout the United States. Admitted New York and Connecticut bars.
(203) 984-6265 (646) 861-2410As executive employment attorneys, in addition to our representation of executives in finance, industry and media, one of our concentrations is the negotiation of contracts for university and college presidents, provosts and senior deans in charge of major academic departments.
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Most importantly, I hope that you and your families and friends are well and staying healthy in these challenging times. Our hearts go out to those who have lost loved ones.
Our executive employment law practice is fully functional, with the four... Read More
Congratulations to our client Dr. Harry J. Elam, Jr., currently Senior Vice Provost and Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, who has been appointed the 16th President of Occidental College.
https://www.oxy.edu/next-president
We were privileged to represent Dr.... Read More
These days practitioners in any legal concentration (ours being executive employment law) need to strengthen what Louis Nizer used to call their “lateral vision” by reading in areas of law, politics and current events they don’t encounter in... Read More
A few years ago, I was irritated by a spate of futile and often damaging acts of public contrition and wrote an article entitled “Never Apologize!” Noted “public intellectual” Cass Sunstein recently jumped on the same bandwagon (see “Apologies Are For Losers”... Read More
As executive employment lawyers, we spend our professional lives negotiating our clients’ agreements, deferred compensation arrangements and termination packages. Outside of work, I often read about legal matters unrelated to our practice, both for my own interest and in order to cultivate... Read More
A New York City real estate executive I know has read widely in the works of Washington Irving. I don’t have my friend’s level of knowledge about America’s first author to receive international recognition, but... Read More
Well, not really Poirot (although that probably got your attention).
And not Robert Mueller.
Far more common, indeed widespread across corporate America these days, are those independent investigations legally required in response to employee complaints of discrimination, sexual harassment and other types... Read More
September again.
No matter how old you are, the end of summer and the approach of Fall call up memories of going back to school, which makes it a good time to review some of our own “ABC’s,” basic principles... Read More
Until recently, executive employment attorneys who dealt primarily with big companies, such as banks, financial institutions and Fortune 1000 corporations, assumed that blatant sexual harassment in the workplace was largely a thing of the past in corporate America other than in... Read More