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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
While fully acknowledging the trauma of being terminated, a knowledgeable and experienced executive employment lawyer can guide the executive, whether a corporate CEO, an executive in finance or a college or university president, through the necessary decisions which must be made --... 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
As executive employment lawyers, the daily work of our practice is concentrated on counseling executives who are being hired or fired. The emotional climate of those two legal tasks could hardly be more different.
Executives being hired, particularly when they are recruited... Read More
Executive employment and compensation attorneys prefer happy and satisfied clients. These two states of mind do not, however, always go together. They do, of course, when we successfully negotiate a new contract for a college or university president or a Wall Street... Read More
You are a CEO, senior vice president or managing director in finance, media, industry or academia.
You have been asked to meet with HR with your immediate supervisor in attendance and told that the company is “going in a different direction.” You... 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
In addition to maintaining important legal protections, there are also significant practical considerations which should motivate all executive clients to keep quiet about the circumstances of their hiring or firing:
1. Telling co-workers, friends and non-spouse family members about the particulars... Read More