{"id":39633,"date":"2015-09-17T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/contracts\/uncategorized\/employment-agreement-the-law-office-inc-and-arun-dube.html"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:58","slug":"employment-agreement-the-law-office-inc-and-arun-dube","status":"publish","type":"corporate_contracts","link":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/contracts\/compensation\/employment-agreement-the-law-office-inc-and-arun-dube.html","title":{"rendered":"Employment Agreement &#8211; The Law Office Inc. and Arun Dube"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\n\n                                 THE LAW OFFICE\n                              EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT\n\n     THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT is entered into effective as of the 15th day of\nMay, 1996, by and between THE LAW OFFICE, INC., a Washington corporation\n('Employer') and ARUN DUBE ('Employee').\n\n     WHEREAS, Employer is in the business of providing an online legal forum for\nconsumers, corporations, law firms and individual lawyer practitioners;\n\n     WHEREAS, The parties desire to enter into this Agreement to provide for the\nterms and conditions of Employee's employment as CEO and President of the\nEmployer;\n\n     WHEREAS, the parties acknowledge that the terms and provisions of this\nAgreement, including the severance package and stock options contained herein,\nprovide separate and valuable consideration for the Non-Compete Covenant\ncontained herein.\n\n     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, it is agreed as follows:\n\n     1.   DUTIES. Employee agrees to serve as a full-time employee of Employer\nin the capacity of President.  Employee agrees to faithfully and diligently\nperform the acts and duties of his office and devote his best efforts on a full-\ntime basis.  Employee shall also perform such other duties as are consistent\nwith his position as are reasonably assigned to him by the BOD of the Employer.\nEmployer recognizes that Employee has existing business interests and they are\nexpected to continue.\n\n     2.   TERM. The term of Employee's employment under this Agreement will\nbegin immediately and will be 'at will.'\n\n     3 . COMPENSATION AND RELATED MATTERS. Employer shall pay Employee\ncompensation and benefits as follows:\n\n- -    BASE COMPENSATION.  During the Employment Period, Employer shall pay to\n     Employee an annual base salary of $100,000.  Employee's salary may be\n     further reviewed and adjusted periodically.\n\n- -    BONUS.  Beginning May 15, 1996, Employee shall also be entitled to a bonus,\n     payable quarterly, equal to 1 % of the increase in gross revenue, plus 4 %\n     of the increase in net revenue, in the prior quarter over the corresponding\n     quarter in the prior year.  For example, the bonus in 2nd quarter 1997 will\n     be equal to 1 % of the difference between 1st quarter 1997 gross revenue\n     and 1st quarter 1996 gross revenue, plus 4 % of the difference between 1st\n     quarter 1997 net revenue and 1st quarter 1996 net revenue.  The 4th\n     quarter bonus, if any, shall be equal to the difference between (i) the\n     applicable percentage increase in gross revenue and net revenue for the\n     year then ended over the prior year and (ii) the sum of the three preceding\n     quarterly bonuses paid to Employee in the year then ended, it being\n     understood that if such annual computation discloses that the Company has\n     overpaid Employee, Employee shall promptly refund to the Company the\n     overpaid amount.  Notwithstanding anything stated previously in this\n     paragraph, the Board of Directors reserves the final authority to decide\n     the appropriateness of this bonus on a quarterly basis.\n\n\n\n- -    SIGNING BONUS.  Employer shall pay to Employee a $10,000 bonus upon\n     the execution of this Agreement.\n- -    OPTIONS. 50,000 LRC shares, granted and vesting immediately, market price\n     as of May 15, 1996, which was $2.00 per share. 1.25% of TLO stock when\n     financing is in place, 1.25% of TLO stock after 2 consecutive profitable\n     quarters, vesting upon grant, market price on date of grant.\n- -    EXPENSES.  During the Employment Period, Employee shall be entitled to\n     receive prompt reimbursement for all reasonable expenses incurred by\n     Employee in performing services hereunder; provided, however, that Employee\n     complies with Employer's policies and procedures established from time to\n     time to document such expense.\n- -    VACATION AND OTHER BENEFITS.  Employee shall be entitled to such paid\n     vacation and other benefits as shall be in effect from time to time for\n     senior executive officers of Legal Research Center.\n\n     4.   TERMINATION AND COMPENSATION DUE ON TERMINATION. Employee's employment\nis at will.  Upon termination of employment, Employer shall have no further\nobligations to Employee except for salary and bonus accrued, and Options vested\nthrough the date of termination, and any other obligations provided by law.\n\n     5.   NONDISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Employee agrees that he\nwill not use or disclose, or permit others to use or disclose (other than other\nemployees or representatives of Employer), any trade secrets, confidential\ninformation, data or records relating to the business, techniques, operations\nand conditions (financial or otherwise) of Employer which is not generally known\nor available through other lawful sources.\n\n     6.   PROPERTY RIGHTS. Subject to the last sentence in this Paragraph,\nEmployer shall acquire exclusive right, title, and interest to all inventions,\ndiscoveries, improvements, designs, ideas, know-how, technology and the like\ndeveloped, conceived, or invented by Employee, in whole or in part, whether\nwritten or in some other form and whether or not patentable or eligible for\nprotection under any copyright law.  Without limiting the generality of the\nforegoing, Employee hereby assigns to Employer (i) all rights to any inventions,\nor to improvements, and all rights to apply for United States and\/or foreign\nletters of patent granted upon such inventions; and (ii) any copyrights Employee\nmay have in materials created by Employee or otherwise generated during the\nperiod in which Employee is performing services for Employer, and Employer shall\nhave the sole right to apply for and obtain copyright protection for any\nmaterials for which such protection can be obtained and to obtain such copyright\nrenewals.  Despite any of the foregoing, nothing in this Paragraph 6 shall apply\nto an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret\ninformation of Employer is used and which is developed entirely on Employee's\nown time, and (i) does not relate (a) directly to the business of Employer or\n(b) to Employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or\n(h) which does not result from any work performed by Employee for Employer.\n\n     7.   NON-COMPETE COVENANT. During the Employment Period and for a period of\n18 months after the termination of employment for any reason Employee shall not\n(i) directly or indirectly, whether as a principal, owner, agent, employee or in\nany other capacity whatsoever, engage in the business of an online legal forum,\n(ii) solicit for employment or employ any employee or independent contractor of\nEmployer, or (iii) contact any present or contemplated customers of Employer\nregarding the business of Employer.\n\n\n\n     8.   REMEDIES FOR BREACH. Employee acknowledges that he has carefully read\nand considered all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.  Employee\nfurther acknowledges that money damages would not be a measurable or adequate\nremedy for Employee's breach of any of the covenants contained in this\nAgreement, and, accordingly, in addition to and without limiting any other\nremedy available to Employer in the event of such a breach, Employee agrees to\nsubmit to the equitable jurisdiction of any court of competent personal and\nsubject matter jurisdiction in connection with any action to enjoin the Employee\nfrom violating any such covenants.  In the event that Employee is found to have\nbreached any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Employee hereby\nagrees to pay all costs and expenses incurred by Employer in enforcing the\nprovisions of this Agreement found to have been breached by Employee, including\nEmployer's attorney's fees.\n\n     9.   BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and\nbe enforceable by Employer, it's successors, assigns and affiliates.\n\n     10.  WAIVER. The failure of Employer to insist on the strict performance of\nany provision of this Agreement or to exercise any right, power or remedy upon a\nbreach by Employee shall not constitute a waiver of that or any other provision\nof this Agreement.  A waiver on any one occasion shall not be deemed to be a\nwaiver for subsequent occasions.\n\n     11.  SURVIVAL AND SEVERABILITY. The terms and conditions of this Agreement\nshall survive the termination of Employee's employment with Employer to the\nfull extent necessary for their enforcement and for the protection of Employer,\nit's successors, assigns and affiliates.  If for any reason any portion of any\nprovision of this Agreement is declared invalid, void or unenforceable by a\ncourt of competent jurisdiction, the validity and binding effect of any\nremaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect to\nthe fullest extent possible as if this Agreement had been executed with the\ninvalid, void or unenforceable portion or provision eliminated.  In the event\nthat any provision of this Agreement relating to time periods and\/or areas of\nrestriction shall be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to exceed the\nmaximum time periods or areas such court deems reasonable and enforceable, said\ntime periods and\/or areas of restriction shall be deemed to become and\nthereafter be the maximum time periods and\/or areas which such court deems\nreasonable and enforceable.\n\n     12.  GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the\nState of Minnesota.\n\n     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto affixed their\n     signatures.\n\nTHE LAW OFFICE, INC.\n\nBy: \/s\/ C.R. Ljunakull\n    ------------------------\nIts: Chairman of BOD and CEO\n     -----------------------\n\n\/s\/ A.K. 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