Employment Agreements, Severance. and Claims Releases 

• Employment Agreements
  
  • 2022.10.29  Terms Sheet Update.  Here is a link to a terms sheet that an executive or company could use as a starting point for development of an employment agreement.  Executives and employers often have competing interests, of course, with discussion of these set forth in the following LexisNexis article of mine. 
    
  • "Executive Employment Agreement Insights: From High Stakes to Competing Interests."  This comprehensive article practically serves as a terms sheet in that it examines the material terms of executive-level employment agreements - with insights that contrast the perspectives of employers and executives. (Poerio, published by LexisNexis, 2019.10.08). [pdf]
    
  • "Negotiating Employment Agreements: Checklist Of 14 Key Issues" (Forbes, 11/11/2013).
    
  • ​Comprehensive Checklist (updated 1/28/2016).
    
  • 409A DIagnostic Checklist - for detection of problematic agreement terms.
    
  • Garden Leave
    
• Release Agreements - Design and Drafting
  • General Checklist
  • Specific Improvements to Consider
  • 409A Diagnostic Checklist - for detection of problematic release provisions.
    
  • Litigation by executives to invalidate claims releases
• Litigation by Executives to collect severance --
  
  • pursuant to employment-related agreements
    
  • pursuant to severance plans
• Survey Data re Severance

State Laws

• DC Law Summary (2017)
  

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