LIVE REPLAY: Drafting Employment Agreements CLE

LIVE REPLAY: Drafting Employment Agreements

September 2012

LIVE REPLAY: Drafting Employment Agreements

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Program Description:

Carefully planned and drafted employment agreements are essential to a successful employment arrangement. Agreements for managements and other key personnel have also become more complex, involving a blend of duties tied to performance benchmarks and reporting, current and deferred incentive compensation, the development of confidential information with concerns about its subsequent use by departing employees, tax and benefit issues. All of these threads must be tightly wound together for a sound agreement. This program will provide you with a real-world guide to planning and drafting the essential components of effective employment agreements for managers and key employees, including spotting common mistakes that lead to litigation.

- Drafting essential components of a managerial or key employee employment agreement

- Scope of duties and performance benchmarks

- Compensation and benefits - forms of compensation, incentives and timing of payment

- Term and termination - how and when someone may be discharged

- Confidential information of employer, conflicts of interest, and non-competition

- Common mistakes in employment agreements leading to litigation

Faculty:

J. Mark Poerio is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, where his practice focuses exclusively on employment agreements, employee benefits and executive compensation. He advises employers about the corporate, tax, financial accounting, securities, labor, and litigation issues surrounding employment agreements. Mr. Poerio has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University where he currently teaches a course on the business aspects of executive compensation. He has also written an lectured extensively on executive compensation topics. Mr. Poerio received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his J.D. from Cornell University Law School.

Marc E. Bernstein is a partner in the New York office of Paul Hastings, LLP, where he has an extensive employment law practice, including complex wage and hour class cases, discrimination lawsuits, corporate raiding/unfair competition cases and SOX whistleblower actions. Earlier in his career, he was associate general counsel of the American International Group, where he headed the company's worldwide employment law group and was the senior employment lawyer advising management regarding employment issues. Mr. Bernstein received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.