You are a senior executive at a private equity firm. After years of performance, you are terminated without cause.

Your employment agreement entitles you to severance, but the initial offer comes in at $43K—well below market and far short of what the contract supports. With six figures on the line and the firm controlling the narrative, what would you do?

Despite bringing in millions in customer sales including securing DJ bookings for the famed Brooklyn Mirage, you find yourself suddenly pushed out without severance while management provies no visibility into reasons for the termination. What do you do?

The start up you’ve dedicated a year of your life to building is in acquisition talks with a major public company. Preliminary valuations estimate a sale for $10-15M. As a founding engineer, you hold 10% equity.

Your CEO suddenly claims your vested equity is invalid and the remaining unvested shares are forfeited. With $233K- $1M on the line, what would you do?

Your company is hit with a putative class action under the California Invasion of Privacy Act based on routine website functionality.

Plaintiff’s counsel pushes for an early settlement, citing statutory damages and escalating exposure across a potential class. With liability untethered to actual harm and defense costs compounding quickly, what would you do?