This Law Firm Publication by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. discusses the Supreme Court of Louisiana's recent decision in Read v. Willwoods Community, which overturned a jury verdict awarding damages to an employee who claimed that his employer breached a verbal contract to employ him for five years. The court held that unless an employer and employee specify a term of employment, employment is "at will." Although it noted that a contract establishing a term of employment may be created orally, the court concluded that the parties must, through offer and acceptance, clearly agree to be bound for a certain time period.