Whether in sports or business, negotiation of high-level executive contracts can be intense. Parties haggle over compensation packages, benefits, job duties and titles. Sometimes, however, lost in the shuffle is the termination language. Too often in my now 20-year career as a labor and employment litigator, I've encountered very generic, boilerplate "For Cause" termination language in an employment agreement. Usually, this language leans heavily in favor of the employee and the result, employers can have a difficult time terminating a high-level executive, even though they engaged in conduct that makes the employer say, "What do you mean this is a close call?"