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Category Archives: Executive contracts
Panel of Global Employment Lawyers Agrees on One Thing: U.S. Noncompete Laws Create Unique Challenges
The state-by-state patchwork of noncompete laws is difficult enough for U.S.-based businesses, let alone employers with a cross-border presence. I had the pleasure of exploring this topic with a panel of U.S. and UK-based employment lawyers as part to the … Continue reading
Posted in Covenants Not to Compete, Executive contracts, Litigation, Non-Competes, Trade Secrets
Tagged covenant not to compete, covenants not to compete, non-compete, non-compete agreements, non-compete clauses, noncompetes
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There’s More to Learn from Jeopardy! than Trivia
Q: This household-name company allowed an insider to lead a high-profile executive search only to end up hiring himself for the job. It then failed to perform basic vetting that might have uncovered the new guy’s embarrassing history of insensitive … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate successsion, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style
Tagged Alex Trebek, corporate succession, Executive Search, Internal candidates, Jeopardy!, Mike Richards, succession planning
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When it Comes to Lawyers and Allegiances, Execs Should Look Out for No. 1
Embattled former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes learned an inconvenient truth when it comes to allegiances between outside law firms, their corporate clients and individuals on the executive team. In pretrial wrangling before the August 31 start of her federal criminal … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Confidential Information, Executive contracts
Tagged attorney-client privilege, CEOs, complaints against executives, confidentiality agreements, Elizabeth Holmes
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Former Astros GM Demands Trial Over his Sign-Stealing Termination, but Quiet Arbitration Settlement May be Unavoidable
Former Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow is not fading quietly into the footnotes of baseball’s hall of shame. Still unemployed after his termination by the Astros following Major League Baseball’s investigation of the dark arts employed during the team’s World … Continue reading
Posted in Arbitration agreements, CEOs, Executive contracts, Sports contracts, Uncategorized
Tagged arbitration, Houston Astros, Jeff Luhnow, MLB, sports contracts
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Harassment Skeletons in McDonald’s Closet Hasten CEO Steve Easterbrook Downfall
Even by today’s standards of board oversight in the #MeToo era, the speed of McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook’s fall was breathtaking. In just four short years at the helm, Easterbrook was credited with nearly doubling the company’s share price and … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate culture, Executive Compensation, Executive contracts, Workplace Romances
Tagged CEO, CEOs, consensual, executive compensation, executive employment, McDonald's, workplace romance
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For Execs Confronting Extortion Shakedowns, Few Reasons to Participate
A juicy corporate scandal has a unique ability to wipe away billions from a corporation’s market cap with frightening speed, so it’s no wonder that executives are prone to quake when faced with the prospect of responding to the threat … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Confidential Information, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style, Whistleblowers
Tagged Amazon, Avenatti, CEO, CEOs, confidentiality agreements, executive contracts, extortion, Joe Ahmad, Nike
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NFL’s Goodell Faces Leadership Challenge in Latest Patriots Discipline Probe
The sports metaphors are overflowing when it comes to the challenge that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell faces with the prospect of investigating and meting out appropriate punishment for New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Let’s just say this: Welcome to … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Criminal Prosecutions, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style, Legal, Sports contracts
Tagged CEO, executive, New England Patriots, NFL, NLF executives, Robert Kraft, Roger Goodell
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For Politicians and Business Leaders, Dusty Yearbooks Hide Ticking Time Bomb
A cascade of yearbook scandals and confessions of disreputable behavior is sending quakes through Virginia political circles and beyond after decades-old yearbooks surfaced with references to racial slurs, images of students in blackface and other behavior unbecoming of those in … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate culture, Criminal Background Checks, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style, Legal, Social Media
Tagged background checks, CEO, CEOs, executive, executive contracts, executive employment, Joe Ahmad, Social Media
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#MeToo Zeitgeist Sends Quakes Through C-Suites
CEOs from three big U.S. chipmakers made unexpected career exits for improper behavior in the last two months alone, some on the job barely long enough to get their new business cards. Most recently and perhaps most surprising, Texas Instruments’ … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate culture, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style, Workplace Romances
Tagged CEO, CEOs, executive, executive compensation, executive contracts, executive employment, executive employment lawyer, executives, Joe Ahmad, litigation, workplace romance
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Fifth Circuit Reminder: Words Matter in Employment Contacts, Restrictive Covenants
Sometimes the most fundamental legal concepts are so basic and intuitive that they tend to fall by the wayside in practice. Case in point is a recent Fifth Circuit opinion throwing out an arbitration agreement because the employer didn’t follow … Continue reading
Posted in Arbitration agreements, Executive contracts, Fiduciary Duty, Legal, Litigation
Tagged arbitration, executive contracts, Joe Ahmad, Joseph Ahmad, litigation, retention agreements
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