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In accordance with our last blog, the following is Part 2 of the subject:
Terminal Degrees Other Than a Ph.D.
Another significant trend, notable in the past few years, is that, increasingly, college and university presidents do not absolutely need to have... Read More
As executive employment attorneys representing college and university presidents, deans, provosts and other senior administrators in higher education, as well as the heads of independent secondary schools, we have noticed certain significant changes in the hiring landscape from even five years ago.
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Can things get worse?
Just as we seem to be emerging from two years of the pandemic, and starting to feel that, with vaccinations and new treatments, not every diagnosis of COVID-19 need be a sentence of serious illness or even death,... Read More
As executive employment attorneys who concentrate on negotiating the contracts for college and university presidents, deans and provosts, and the heads of independent schools, we hear many of the same questions by these academic leaders as they prepare for contract negotiations. They... Read More
Marty Latz, one of my favorite negotiation gurus, recently wrote a fascinating blog about the failure of negotiations to avoid the war in Ukraine. One of Latz’s salient points was that Vladimir Putin, who only understands crude power as leverage in a... Read More
As executive employment attorneys, when we ask new clients to send us their employment documents for review, we often hear the comment, “I don’t have an employment agreement, just an offer letter.” This is particularly true in the financial services industry and... Read More
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
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