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
Legal Lessons on Student Suicides and Assaults: A Short Guide for College and University Presidents, Administrators and Trustees: Part 2
Liability for Harm to Oneself
Given the statistics on the widespread and growing phenomenon of student suicide, college administrators are likely to be more concerned about suicide than they are about student-on-student assault. According... Read More
Legal Lessons on Student Suicides and Assaults: A Short Guide for College and University Presidents, Administrators and Trustees: Part 1
Recent decisions by the highest courts of two states, California and Massachusetts, offer important guidance as to when a college or university can be held liable for money damages when one student harms another student by an assault, or harms themself... Read More
Some Differences Between First-Time and Renewal Contracts for College and University Presidents (Part 2)
Renewal Contracts for the President: A Different Focus
By contrast, when a college or university president’s contract is up for renewal, the situation is different and a different... Read More
Some Differences Between First-Time and Renewal Contracts for College and University Presidents (Part 1)
As executive compensation attorneys, we represent college and university presidents in their contract negotiations. As I have written at length elsewhere, for a prospective president to “do it yourself” or to be represented... Read More
What College Presidents Must Do Before the Axe Falls: Part 2
What College Presidents Must Do Before the Axe Falls: Part 1
Why presidents and other seasoned executives can benefit from seasoned counsel
The higher education press has been filled recently with stories about abrupt firings of presidents and other senior executives at universities and colleges across the nation. What was once an... Read More
WHEN TO KEEP QUIET SO AS NOT TO JEOPARDIZE AN EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT DEAL (PART 2)
In addition to maintaining important legal protections, there are also significant practical considerations which should motivate all executive clients to keep quiet about the circumstances of their hiring or firing:
1. Telling co-workers, friends and non-spouse family members about the particulars of... Read More
When To Keep Quiet So As Not To Jeopardize an Executive Employment Deal (Part 1)
Here are the essential reasons why every executive client -- both before as well as after they have retained an executive employment attorney -- should not be speaking or writing or emailing or connecting on social media, even to friends much less... Read More
Romantic Relationships in the Executive Workplace
A lengthy article in the Business section of The New York Times of February 11, 2018 recalled -- explicitly in response to the #MeToo movement -- all the turmoil and controversy when, in the early 1980’s, a young woman executive with a... Read More