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Severance Agreements Termination Employment Contract

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Executive Contracts: What’s Common and What to Look For

For both employers and executives, having a well-drafted executive employment agreement is key to defining the relationship between an employer and one of its most important employees. The contract also sets the parties’...more

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Congratulations On Your New Role: Here’s How to Protect Yourself Legally

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If you have recently obtained a new position in the C-Suite, you are aware that the new position brings prestige, authority, and opportunity. But you may not be aware that as an officer of a company, you have also increased...more

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Ontario, Canada Court Finds Employer Repudiated Employment Agreement When it Failed to Pay Employee’s Contractual Severance

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In Timmins v. Artisan Cells, 2025 CanLII 2387, Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice found, in an undefended claim, that the employers “by their correspondence and actions” repudiated the employee’s employment agreement when...more

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Three Key Considerations in Crafting Effective Multistate Separation Agreements

One of the main reasons for a separation agreement with an employee is to obtain an effective release of claims against the employer. However, ensuring release agreements are effective and enforceable is becoming increasingly...more

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British Columbia, Canada Court of Appeal Affirms Enforceability of Termination Clause That Incorporated by Reference Notice and...

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In Egan v. Harbour Air Seaplanes LLP, 2024 BCCA 222, the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) upheld a lower court’s decision that a termination clause in an employment agreement was enforceable because it was neither...more

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Better Late Than Never: Employers in Canada Should Review Their Termination of Employment Provisions

Canadian employers should review their employment contracts and update them as necessary to avoid potentially costly problems upon separation of employment. Since early 2021 when the Supreme Court of Canada declined to...more

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Louisiana Restrictive Covenant Signed by C-Suite Employee After Termination Is Unenforceable, State Appeals Court Holds

In Louisiana, restrictive covenants—known locally as “no competes”—are unenforceable by statutory default. The applicable statute declares, “Every contract or agreement, or provision thereof, by which anyone is restrained...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"The Landscape of CEO Succession Issues"

A board’s decision as to whether, when and how to terminate the employment of a CEO and hire a successor is among the most critical decisions facing the board of any company — large or small, public or private, established or...more

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