You just lost your job. Your employer hands you a severance agreement and tells you to sign. It feels like the obvious move. Take the money and move on. But what you sign, and what you give up in signing it, can follow you for a long time. Employees are often asked to evaluate severance agreements while dealing with the immediate stress of losing a job. That makes it easy to focus on the payment without giving the release and other restrictions equal attention. What a Severance Agreement...

Whether you are filing a lawsuit or have just been served with one, the first question most people ask is some version of the same thing: how long is this going to take, and what actually happens between now and the end. The honest answer is that litigation moves through a handful of distinct phases, each with its own timeline and its own purpose, and a case can take several months or, in many instances, several years to work all the way through the court system. The specific rules and...

When a workplace dispute gets resolved through a settlement or severance agreement, most people focus on the number. What is the payment? What claims are being released? When does it take effect? The deadlines buried in the fine print tend to get less attention, and that is often where things go wrong. New York law requires specific review and revocation periods in certain employment agreements. Those requirements are not suggestions. Skipping them, or getting them wrong, can make the...