Practice Area Guides

Employment and Executive Compensation

From employment agreement review through policy updates, August helps employment lawyers analyze compensation arrangements, flag non-standard terms, and harmonize agreements across management teams—so your team can focus on strategic advisory work.

Agreement Review and Harmonization

Use Tabular Review to analyze and compare employment, consulting, and equity award agreements.

  1. Upload employment, consulting, and equity award agreements for a management team or workforce segment.

  2. Use Tabular Review to extract position, compensation, severance triggers, non-compete and non-solicit terms, and change-in-control protections.

  3. Ask August to flag outliers compared to a target standard.

Example prompt

Run Tabular Review on all employment agreements in the 'Management Agreements' folder. For each agreement, extract: (1) employee name and position, (2) base salary and bonus structure, (3) severance triggers and amounts, (4) non-compete duration and geography, (5) non-solicit scope, (6) change-in-control protections, and (7) governing law. Flag any non-competes exceeding 12 months or unusually broad non-solicits.

Policy and Handbook Updates

Use Assistant to update policies and handbooks to reflect new legal developments.

  1. Provide existing policies and ask August to propose clean, redlined updates reflecting new legal developments (subject to attorney review).

  2. Generate comparison tables highlighting differences between legacy and proposed language.

Example prompt

Based on the attached existing employee handbook and the new state law requirements provided, propose updated policy language for: (1) overtime provisions, (2) leave entitlements, (3) termination procedures. Provide redlined versions with tracked changes and a comparison table highlighting material differences.

Due Diligence for M&A Transactions

During M&A transactions, employment agreements require quick review to identify material obligations and potential issues.

  1. Upload all employment and equity agreements for the target company.

  2. Extract key terms including change-in-control provisions, acceleration triggers, and non-compete obligations.

  3. Flag any agreements that may require assignment consent or pose post-closing obligations.

Integrations That Fit Your Practice

  • Microsoft Word: live drafting and redlining of employment agreements without leaving Word

  • Outlook: track correspondence with employees and HR teams

Enterprise-Grade Security for Sensitive Data

  • Single-tenant deployment: your environment stays separate

  • AES-256 encryption: data protected at rest and in transit

  • Ethical walls: matter-level access control

  • No training on your documents: employment data is never used to train models

August maintains ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II certification.

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