Executive Employment Perspectives Blog

Ichabod Crane Visits His Executive Employment Attorney

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

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

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

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

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

For Points #1-3, please see Part 1 of this article

4. Don’t try to do it yourself.

Board members sometimes blindside presidents, deans and other academic executives by asking to discuss a termination package before anything has been put in writing.

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