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In approaching any executive employment agreement, attorneys who represent executives focus on two primary tasks:
First, securing and, if possible, increasing the benefits of the agreement for their executive client, including but not limited to base salary, bonuses, deferred compensation, equity or... Read More
How should an executive, whether a college president, a finance executive, or a senior leader in media or industry, best use an executive employment attorney?
This question arises because even sophisticated individuals use a lawyer on an infrequent basis. As opposed to... Read More
Why is it important for executive employment attorneys who regularly advise college and university presidents and other senior leaders in higher education to understand the peculiar hiring cycle to which these presidents and deans are most often subject?
The answer is clear.... Read More
Continuing our exploration of the questions necessarily asked by an experienced executive employment attorney assessing a particular executive’s potential equity award(s):
3. What happens to the accumulated equity, vested or unvested, when the executive resigns or is terminated?
Here, too,... Read More
What are some of the important terms and conditions which a knowledgeable executive employment attorney looks for in reviewing an executive’s proposed equity award?
Everything begins with a detailed review and analysis of the plan documents which govern the award, in addition... Read More
My late father relished the following story, which should stand as a cautionary tale for executive employment attorneys and their clients.
A salesman was making a great deal of money on commissions. He had just finished his best year ever when the... Read More
2021, despite the continuing pandemic, produced a considerable number of significant books dealing with law and legal history, and it is a pleasure to list and discuss them here for holiday book buyers.
Although our practice concentrates on executive employment law, and... Read More
Many executives, whether senior leaders of large corporations, finance businesses, colleges, universities or secondary schools, have been trained to look for so-called “win-win” situations in all of their dealings. Spurred on by many prominent treatises on effective negotiation techniques, their executive employment... Read More
In our executive employment law practice we have been privileged to represent the full range of leaders in higher education, from presidents of private and public universities and colleges, some of them well-known, to excellent smaller institutions including some of the nation’s... Read More
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