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A young, newly-appointed College President was referred to us for legal representation, and had an initial telephone conversation with me. I could tell that the pressing question on his mind, although never directly expressed, was “I have just been offered an executive... Read More

One unusual feature of the executive employment relationship is that while an employer promises to provide a job for a set term of months or years on pain of having to pay the executive’s compensation, the executive is not obligated to stay... Read More

The late Jim Camp, author of Start With No (subtitled “America’s Number One Negotiating Coach Explains Why Win-Win Is An Ineffective, Often Disastrous Strategy, And How You Can Beat It.”), one of my favorite books on negotiation, insists that every good negotiation... Read More

Late Spring traditionally brings with it the negotiation of renewal contracts for successful sitting college or university Presidents or Heads of an independent school.

First, some context:

An oft-repeated family story is my younger daughter’s reaction, half in amusement and half in... Read More

As professionals, lawyers are trained to represent diverse interests in different matters.

In our practice concentrating on employment agreements for senior executives in education, we have more often represented the individual executives who are being hired or (a good deal less frequently)... Read More

The aim of our legal practice is to add tangible value for our executive employment clients.

Presented with a proposed contract for a College or University President or Head of School, there are numerous ways in which we can improve the overall... Read More

The travails of College and University Presidents are much in the news these days, as indicated by the headline of one column entitled “Who Would Possibly Want To Be A College President!?!”

Since American higher education remains, despite its imperfections, an important... Read More

It’s time for our annual diversion from executive employment law to offer a few last-minute suggestions of books as gifts for yourself or anyone on your list interested in legal issues.

Often involving national or international social and political issues, the... Read More

John W. Hallowell, the revered Head of my own Ohio secondary school, once gave an address to students entitled “Know Your Own Bone.”

We were callow adolescents and the title—taken from Thoreau—sent us into gales of hysterical laughter. We wondered whether he... Read More

Our legal practice concentrates on negotiating and advising with respect to executive employment contracts and termination packages. Our clients are divided fairly evenly between our “niche” of non-profit executives in higher education and independent schools, and those CEOs and senior executives in... Read More