Serving executives in higher education throughout the United States. Admitted New York and Connecticut bars.
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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
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 post, I termed that experience not just unpleasant or disturbing, but actually traumatic, provoking the... Read More
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
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
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 count... Read More
A divided Board, where the President has strong supporters but also some vocal critics.
An intransigent superior, boss or Board Chair.
Performance reviews which are slanted, inaccurate or unfairly negative.
It is the natural tendency of senior executives, particularly college and university... Read More