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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
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
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
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
Board members sometimes blindside presidents, deans and other academic executives by asking to discuss a termination package before anything has been put... Read More
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
A lengthy article in the Business section of The New York Times of February 11, 2018 recalled -- explicitly in response to the #MeToo movement -- all the turmoil and controversy when, in the early 1980’s, a young woman executive with a... Read More
Achieving a senior executive position in any organization is a substantial accomplishment. With such a position ordinarily comes expanded responsibilities as well as meaningfully increased compensation. However, such jobs also bring the real possibility of greater personal liability. In what is frequently... Read More