What is the Value in Hiring the Right Executive Employment Lawyer?
- Robert Adelson
- Jul 10
- 7 min read
July 2025 Edition
We are now into summer. Hopefully, you and your family will be enjoying July 4th / Independence Day holiday this weekend and perhaps that might even continue with a further family vacation. Whether cookouts, picnics, clambakes, time at the beach and seashore, or the lakes, swimming, sailing, biking, walking, hiking or out at the golf links or taking in a ballgame at Fenway Park, I hope you and yours are enjoying summer fun.
For me, I am back in the office after a West of Ireland music vacation in June. The two week trip was led by the folk duo Four Shillings Short https://4shillingsshort.com/ poetry, traditional Irish music, amazing sites, culture, cuisine, with wonderful traveling companions from across the US as we journeyed to Ennis, Dingle Town, Sligo and Clifden in the Connemara of County Galway. There was some singing as well. Though I am certainly no Liam Clancy or Tommy Makem (my idols), it was great fun for me to do vocals on several of their Irish ballads I knew, at pubs and other venues along the way. And a bonus: We had a night of watching Hurling, the national sports passion of all Ireland, at Gracie’s Bar, Sligo. And what a night it was! We witnessed underdog team of County Cork topple the perennial titans Limerick, in a positive thriller. More on that event in Newsletter item #2. Though I’m now back at work in Boston, as you can tell, my head is still a bit on Emerald Isle.
Sadly, before I left for vacation, the Boston Celtics went down to defeat in the second round against the Knicks and we can only hope that Jason Tatum heals and perhaps a new credible challenge might be mounted next year at TD Garden for NBA championship #19. I was back to see the Red Sox trade Rafi Devers in a classic salary dump, so here’s hoping the money saved will be used by Kennedy / Breslow to bring in a new bat to replace Rafi’s. So, as the Sox go back and forth and Alex Cora does his best to get the Sox over .500, they are at least competitive and I love the history and excitement of attending the ballgames at Fenway and later this month will visit with good friends Polar Park for the WooSox. So, whichever sport you are watching or better still participating in, I hope you are enjoying it as well. (Also, with our Boston professional sports scene a bit of a lull right now, I hope my item #2 below will be a fun (though brief) diversion for you to unusual and quite exciting sports event, which took place “across the pond”.)
As for Newsletter items, on June 25, 2025, CEOWORLD magazine published an article I wrote on the value that hiring the right executive employment attorney can have for you as a C-level or senior executive, with the focus on the significant benefits the right attorney can help you achieve in five different and important events in the course of your executive career. Then after the fun vacation article on Hurling #2, this newsletter also has links, in items #4 and #5, to two other earlier executive career articles of mine. The first article, published in 2023 in IVYEXEC, the career advancement website, on the hurdles faced by women CEOs and senior executives, and offers strategies to you on how to succeed and keep your career on its upward trajectory. The second article published in 2024 in IVYEXEC advises the senior executive who is being forced out of his or her position, offering strategies on how to quit your current position and still gain appropriate executive severance compensation in connection with your separation. There is also a special offer as item #6, an Executive Issues Law Diagnostic. I hope some of these items might be of benefit… and my best wishes to all for the rest of July!
1. What is the value in hiring the Right Executive Employment Attorney?
Do you have a C-level or senior executive job offer? Are you facing a change of control? Are you being forced out of your current position? … or have you already been terminated and are being asked to sign a release of claims? Perhaps you are reluctant to seek assistance because you have already had bad experiences with attorneys. So you might reasonably ask — what is the value of hiring an executive employment attorney, even if I somehow got the right one? My new article, published a week ago in CEOWORLD magazine, shows how hiring the right executive employment lawyer can pay off for you …often immediately ..often dramatically. The article first discusses the things that you, as CEO, C-level or senior executive ought to look for to find that right attorney. Then in the “show and tell” part of the article, I walk you through five different areas of executive representation, covering different kinds of events, each event quite significant, that you are likely to face in the course of your executive career where such dramatic results are often achieved for the executive who has chosen carefully and obtained the right legal representation for this important work. Read the article here
2. Hurling Championship “for the ages” (my Éire vacation highlight)
Three weeks ago, on June 7, I led a group of ten to Gracie’s Bar, the top sports bar in Sligo town, Ireland, to watch on the “telly” County Cork vs. County Limerick in the Munster Hurling finals. In this #2 newsletter item, I share my recent Facebook post: a fun highlight from my vacation that perhaps you too might enjoy as a wee bit of light summer / beach reading (especially where the Boston Globe sports page is a bit dull right now). To start — Hurling? What the heck is Hurling? Just the absolute national passion of all Ireland. The game played for more than 1,000 years in Ireland, with the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship, organized by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the highest-tier competition for inter-county hurling in Ireland, contested in every year except one since 1887. That is, it predates the NFL, NHL, NBA. So that among major US sports only Baseball’s National League founded in 1876 is older (the AL founded in 1901). The game is a mixture of the best parts of lacrosse, baseball, rugby, played on a “pitch” much larger than a football or soccer field (145–160 yards). Unlike soccer or hockey, where shots on net count nothing, in hurling, it’s 3 points, for hitting the ball past the goalie into the net, but 1 point if you can hit the hurling ball between the high uprights above goalie and net.. So, using their sticks as baseball bats if a player can get free of the rugby-type scrum, he can score from 80 yards or more out if he can hit it through the uprights. Our match was a positive nail-biter: teams were “level”, that is tied, seventeen (17) times in regulation; score tied 25–25 after regulation; tied again 33–33 after the 10-minute overtime; then Cork wins 3–2 on shots from the penalty area. This was the first time ever a Munster finals was decided on penalty shots. And of course, all eleven of our group rooted passionately for the underdog Red Rebels of Cork. 😊 Of Cork’s 33 points before penalties, 30 were single points with shots, both near and far, through the uprights. Cork only got one 3-pointer, scored past the goalie into the net. So, we cheered all 31 times Cork scored, as did most at Gracie’s. My Facebook post (with many photos) mentions our group, learning rules and scoring, as we went through the night, plus a link to a 6-minute segment from CBS’s “60 Minutes” on “Ireland’s National Obsession with Hurling”, with more links to see game highlights, and several “clippings” from the IRISH TIMES and other papers, raving about this epic match. Enjoy! 😊 Read the Article Here
3. Work with CEOs, C-Suite and Senior Executives, exclusively.
Robert Adelson is an attorney specialized in the representation of CEOs, C-level and senior executives. He no longer represents companies or employers. Learn about Robert Adelson’s work with CEOs, C-level and senior executives to advise on and improve job offers, employment contracts, stock, RSUs, options, bonuses and other executive compensation matters, plus advice and aid on issues of wrongful termination, severance, exit terms, retention, change of control, other executive issues and more … More Details Here
4. Essential Employment Terms for Female Executives
My article published in 2023 by IVYEXEC career advancement website explores the hurdles faced by women CEOs and senior executives in hiring, change of control, harassment and termination situations, strategies to succeed and keep your career on its upward trajectory. Read the Article Here
5. Getting Executive Severance when you Choose to Quit
Are you thinking of quitting your current executive position, but don’t want to leave empty-handed? My article published in February 2024 by IVYEXEC career advancement website, speaks to senior executives who, for reasons beyond their control, want to quit your current position and then strategies how to still seek appropriate executive severance compensation in connection with your separation. Read the Article Here
6. 7/2025 Offer: Good until July 31st
This 4-week value-packed offer, is as a way to get introduced to my law work: : an Executive Issues Law Diagnostic — this offer is good through 7/31/25. Read Details Here
I hope the links and information provided will be useful to you and that there will be an opportunity for me to work with you on legal matters in the near future.
ROBERT A. ADELSON, ESQ. Executive Employment Attorney
Adelson & Associates, LLC
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Email: rob@attorneyadelson.com
Website: www.executiveemploymentattorney.com
Robert A. Adelson is the Principal of Adelson & Associates, LLC. For fifteen (15) years, from October 2004 through December 2019, Robert Adelson practiced law and referred legal work to associates of his trusted and experienced colleagues, as a partner of Engel & Schultz, LLP. In December 2019, the lead partners of the firm announced they would go into semi-retirement, go their separate ways, and the office lease would expire in January 2020. In response, Robert Adelson formed Adelson & Associates, LLC in December 2019 and commenced the new firm’s operations on January 1, 2020, with the new firm taking over, on that date and going forward, all current Robert Adelson clients, matters and operations, as well as all referral of legal work to associates of Robert Adelson. Since 1/1/2020, the firm’s offices have been and remain at 101 Federal Street, 19th Floor, across the street from the pre-2020 offices at One Federal Street, 21st Floor, in Boston’s Financial District.
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