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Don't sign your severance agreement until someone reads it properly.

Most people sign because the deadline is close and the document is 11 pages of legalese. Upload it and get a plain-English read of what you're being paid, what you're giving up, and which terms employment attorneys routinely get changed.

  • Your deadline, revocation window, and the money — pulled out and shown plainly
  • Red flags ranked, with the actual language quoted
  • The questions to ask an employment attorney — and an intro if it's warranted

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Your document is read, reviewed, and discarded. We don't keep the file or its text.

What the review looks at

The money

Lump sum or weeks of pay, when it lands, whether accrued PTO and bonuses are addressed, and whether health coverage continues.

The clock

How long you have to sign, whether you get the 7 days to change your mind, and whether the timeline itself is legally short.

What you're releasing

Whether it's a general release of all claims, whether it reaches into the future, and whether it touches things you can't legally waive.

The restrictions

Non-compete, non-solicit, non-disparagement, confidentiality, no-rehire, arbitration, and post-employment cooperation.

What's missing

The protections that should be there and aren't — the age-discrimination notice, a mutual non-disparagement, a reference commitment.

The context

Language about leave, disability, harassment or retaliation that suggests there's more going on than a routine layoff.

Why the deadline matters

The clock is the whole negotiation.

Severance offers arrive with a signing deadline because a signature ends the conversation. If you're 40 or older, federal law generally gives you 21 days to consider a release of age claims — 45 in a group layoff — plus 7 days after signing to revoke. A shorter window in your document is not a courtesy problem; it can affect whether the release holds up at all.

Almost nothing in a severance agreement is truly final. Amounts, non-competes, references, and health coverage get changed regularly — but only for the people who ask before the deadline.

Before you sign anything

  1. 1.Write down your deadline date. Don't rely on memory.
  2. 2.Don't accept a verbal deadline that's shorter than the document's.
  3. 3.Get the review done first — it takes a minute and changes what you ask for.
  4. 4.Talk to an employment attorney before the revocation window closes, not after.

Talk to an employment attorney before you sign.

A free consultation, on the phone, today. Attorneys routinely get severance numbers raised and restrictions removed — but only before the deadline passes.

What happens to your document

PDFs are read in your browser. The text is sent to our server to be reviewed and is then discarded — we don't store the file, the text, or your name unless you specifically ask to be introduced to an attorney. In that case we pass along the flags from your review and whatever you choose to type, and nothing more.

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