Even CEOs Get Fired: An Engaging Look at How Top Entrepreneurs and Execs

Jotham Stein is a Silicon Valley employment lawyer who represents entrepreneurs, C-Suite executives, board members, and senior managers, as well as less senior employees at companies of every size and type. In Even CEOs Get Fired, Jotham walks readers through the best practices, common pitfalls, and sky's-the-limit possibilities in the various stages of a career - from getting hired, to surviving an employer's changes in control, to a voluntarily exit... to getting fired. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue, mixing straightforward actionable advice with engaging fictional stories, based on real-life scenarios Jotham has seen in his practice. Readers starting out in their careers, or considering jumping into entrepreneurship, will learn how to negotiate like a CEO, regardless of their position. Those already in the C-Suite will appreciate his explanation of which documents and clauses really matter in complex employment agreements, and how to maximize your leverage by focusing on the bottom line. Even CEOs Get Fired is the ultimate guide to talking money, an essential tool for anyone moving up in business.

Jotham S. Stein is the principal of the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C., in Palo Alto, California, and St. Charles, Illinois ( . For more than twenty years, his law firm has represented entrepreneurs, C-Suite executives, board members, and senior managers, as well as less senior employees of all types and size companies. Firm attorneys work on employment agreements, separation agreements, M & A agreements, change in control agreements, stock option agreements, and much more. Jotham is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Princeton University. He is admitted to practice in California, Illinois, New York, Colorado and the District of Columbia as well as the United States Supreme Court, United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits and several United States District Courts. He has also served as part-time General Counsel of a high-technology Silicon Valley company. He is the author of the legal textbook and professional guide: Executive Employment Law: Protecting Executives, Entrepreneurs and Employees (first published by Oxford University Press, now in its seventh edition, with Lexis/Nexis).