You're a partner at a mid-sized architecture firm in Midtown. You just discovered your senior project manager has been funneling clients to a shell company he set up with his brother in Queens. He collected $340,000 in salary and bonuses over the eighteen months he was doing it. You feel gut-punched — and you want that money back. In New York, the faithless servant doctrine is often how employers get it. This is one of the oldest and sharpest weapons New York gives an employe

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.