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Serving executives in higher education, finance, media and industry throughout the United States. Admitted New York and Connecticut bars.

Phone: (203) 984-6265

Phone: (646) 861-2410

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Recent Client Matters

We recently helped a growing technology company terminate a senior executive (and part owner) by pre-emptively commencing litigation for breach of the executive’s confidentiality obligations, then steering the matter into a mediation which resulted in a prompt buy-out of the executive’s position. This matter mirrored a case, several years ago, in which we represented an executive in the reverse situation and favorably settled his entitlements through mediation after we had commenced litigation.

George Birnbaum recently represented a senior executive in the negotiation of a substantial consulting agreement which had to be finely tuned, both to the particular industry and also to preserve the non-exclusive nature of the consultancy relationship. Among other points, we were able to persuade the company hiring our client that the company’s standard requirement that every consultant must obtain an extensive (and expensive) insurance package was largely unnecessary due to the nature of the particular services our client was to render.

Our lawyers recently assisted a literary agent in setting up his own agency while being careful not to violate any of the ongoing restrictions in his former employment agreement. We were successful in helping him take his own clients with him while remaining so faithful to the specifics of his pre-existing obligations that his former employer, after a few threatening letters, decided against litigation.

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