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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
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
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