Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Jody Reilly Soja, who will become the eighth Head of School at The Loomis Chaffee School as of July 1, 2024.
We were privileged to represent Ms. Reilly Soja in her Head of School... Read More
Holiday Books 2023
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
Know Your Own Bone
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
Business Matters
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
News from George Birnbaum Law
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Swami Iyer, on his appointment as incoming CEO of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation.
https://www.ciri.com/ceo-president-transition/
We were privileged to represent Mr. Iyer in his contract negotiations.
News from George Birnbaum Law
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Samuel Schaffer, currently
Head of Upper School at St. Albans School, who will become the Head of School at Roxbury Latin School as of July 1, 2024.
https://www.roxburylatin.org/2023/07/20/dr-sam-schaffer-will-be-roxbury-latins-12th-head-of-school/
We were privileged to represent... Read More
News from George Birnbaum Law
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, S. Sita Sonty, on her appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Space Tango LLC, effective September 1, 2023.
https://spacetango.com/latest/pressreleases/sitasontyceoannouncement/
We were privileged to represent Ms. Sonty in her contract negotiations.
Back To School
At the beginning of the new academic year, it seems like a good time to review certain fundamental lessons which keep recurring in our legal practice involving executive employment agreements for the leaders of universities, colleges and independent schools:
1. Don’t... Read More
News from George Birnbaum Law
Congratulations and best wishes to our client, Dr. Ivory D. Hills, currently Dean of Faculty and Assistant Head at Deerfield Academy, who will become the Head of School at St. Mark’s School as of July 1, 2024.
We were privileged to... Read More
Tips and Trends in Academic Employment: A Questionable Negotiation Tactic
Lest you think that the world of executive employment in academia is, in line with its non-profit educational mission, too high-minded to engage in hardball negotiation tactics, consider this gambit, which we have now seen more than once in the past year.
... Read More