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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
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
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
At the outset of every legal engagement, our executive employment clients receive a short but important lecture from us on the nature and ramifications of the attorney-client privilege as it applies to their interactions with us as their executive employment attorneys.
Volumes... Read More
1. Q. Won’t the Board be put off that I am using a lawyer? Can they withdraw my offer?
A. There are several answers to these concerns, or rather, several parts of one overall answer which... Read More
Picking up on the list of reasons discussed in last week’s post:
3. So as to Preserve the Good Relationship Between the President and the Board Which Prevails at the Outset of the President’s First Term of Office.
At the beginning... Read More
As executive employment attorneys with a concentration in higher education contracts, we have, over the past decade, represented dozens of college and university presidents in negotiating (or helping them negotiate) their contracts when they are hired.
Many of them were first-time presidents,... Read More
Our executive employment law practice gave us a vantage point from which to view the effects of the pandemic on our nation’s leaders in higher education, the presidents of American colleges and universities.
It was not a pretty picture.
Carefully formulated budgets,... Read More
"You gotta know the territory!!"
---- Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Our executive employment law and compensation practice serves senior executives in a variety of both for-profit and not-for-profit settings, including finance,... Read More
As executive employment attorneys dealing with compensation issues for university and college presidents, we were aware of the pressures on presidential compensation even before the global pandemic. These pressures come from below and above.
From below, the faculty is critical that the... Read More