Join George Christodoulo, senior partner with Lawson and Weitzen LLP, for Terminating Principals and How to Protect Your A/E Firm's Goodwill, Clients and Employees. This 90-minute, recorded, ZweigWhite webinar outlines the vast yet intricate process involved in terminating essential staff, the considerations and pitfalls to consider, and how to effectively handle settlements when the need arises. Don't be caught in a situation where your firm's reputation, employees, and money are at risk.

Every firm in the A/E industry will at one point have to deal with a termination. Whether it is non-management or a principal, terminations can have a lasting effect on a firm's goodwill, clients, and employees. Knowing the process inside and out can greatly aid a firm in rectifying any issue before it can become damaging. Depending on the level of the employee being terminated, this process can become a web of confusion than can lead to problems, lost clients, and even a lawsuit. But the choices remain the same: leave a damaging member of your firm in place, or do what is best for the firm's future and let them go. You cannot do right by your firm if you aren't equipped to handle these situations professionally, extensively, and properly.

Attendees of this webinar will learn:

• The involved process of terminating a principal in your firm
• Who should be making the decisions, and why they should make them
• The special considerations you make take into account when terminating a principal
• How to manage the settlement process

George Christodoulo
Senior Partner
Lawson & Weitzen, LLP

George Christodoulo is a corporate lawyer who has spent more than 30 years in private practice in Boston. Mr. Christodoulo has extensive experience in providing legal services to professional service organizations, with an emphasis on ownership transition, management succession, mergers and acquisitions and termination of principals. He has lectured both regionally and nationally to various professional associations on these topics and has written extensively on such matters. He received an A.B. degree magna cum laude from Harvard College, an M.B.A. from Harvard University School of Business Administration, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was Executive Editor of the A/E Mergers and Acquisitions Cookbook (Zweig White Information Services, LLC. 2007) and has served as chair of ZweigWhite's Mergers and Acquisitions Summit.