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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
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
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
At the height of the Profumo scandal in England in the early 1960’s, the young Mandy Rice-Davies (unfairly portrayed by the tabloid press as a “good time girl,” in fact Rice-Davies was a brilliant woman who later became a notable business entrepreneur)... 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
Continuing with our last blog topic:
7. Most employment law plaintiffs lose. This is a fact of legal life which both plaintiffs’ and defendants’ lawyers do not like to speak about, since it is bad for business, but I believe... Read More
Much of our legal work as executive employment attorneys consists of negotiating individual executive employment agreements and offer letters. These negotiations take place when an executive is being hired or when his or her initial employment is being extended or expanded. These... Read More
As executive employment attorneys, we help our clients, whether in finance, higher education, media or the other industry sectors we serve, negotiate their most important employment agreements, when they are hired, when they are promoted or changing responsibilities, and when they are... Read More