You just discovered that your VP of sales in Midtown has been funneling deals to a competitor her husband owns. Over the past two years, she's collected roughly $340,000 in salary, commissions, and bonuses while quietly steering your best clients away. You want her out — but firing her doesn't get your money back. The faithless servant doctrine in New York is the tool that does. It's one of the most powerful remedies in employer-side commercial litigation, and most business o

Your operations manager has been with you for seven years. You paid her $185,000 a year, plus bonuses. Last month you discovered she'd been steering your best clients to a side company her brother runs — and she's been doing it for at least eighteen months. Your first instinct is to fire her and sue for the lost business. But under New York law, you may have a far more powerful remedy: clawing back every dollar of salary and bonus you paid her during the period of disloyalty.