Top executives seeking protection from job termination should seek regular reviews, reasonable severance When attorney Jonathan Howe of law firm Howe & Hutton gets a phone call from an association CEO saying he or she has signed a five-year contract, the first thing he advises is to take a look at the language regarding termination. "So I say to the guy, you don't have a five-year contract, you have a 90-day contract or a one-year contract based upon what the termination provision is," Howe said. Termination is not what most CEOs want to think about heading into a new job, but it's a regular occurrence in associations—and sometimes the separation isn't amicable. In… Read More