COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Consulting, Employment, and Non-compete Agreements

The Company has entered into various consulting and employment agreements with certain key members of management. These agreements generally (i) are one year in length, (ii) contain restrictive covenants, (iii) under certain circumstances, provide for compensation and, subject to providing the Company with a release, severance payments, and (iv) are automatically renewed annually unless either party gives sufficient notice of termination.

Litigation and Complaints

The Company is subject, from time to time, to various claims, lawsuits, contracts disputes, and other complaints from, for example, clients, candidates, suppliers, landlords for both leased and subleased properties, former and current employees, and regulators or tax authorities arising in the ordinary course of business. The Company routinely monitors claims such as these, and records provisions for losses when the claim becomes probable and the amount due is estimable. Although the outcome of these claims cannot be determined, the Company believes that the final resolution of these matters will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or liquidity.

For matters that have reached the threshold of probable and estimable, the Company has established reserves for legal, regulatory, and other contingent liabilities. The legal reserves are included under the caption "Other non-current liabilities" in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company had no reserves as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.

Resignation of Chief Executive Officer

As previously disclosed, on April 1, 2018, Stephen A. Nolan gave notice to the Company's Board of Directors of his resignation as Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company effective as of April 1, 2018. On April 1, 2018, following the resignation of Mr. Nolan, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Jeffrey E. Eberwein, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, as Chief Executive Officer, and Richard K. Coleman, Jr., a director of the Company, as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. As a result, during the three months ended March 31, 2018 the Company recognized additional compensation expense of $2,024 to its former Chief Executive Officer classified within salaries and related expense in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations.

Operating Leases

Effective January 1, 2019, the Company adopted the new lease guidelines detailed in ASU 2016-02. The Company's financial position for reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2019 are presented under the new guidance, while prior periods amounts are not adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with previous guidance as provided for in the alternative transition approach under ASU 2018-11. We did not elect to apply the recognition requirements to short-term leases with terms of 12 months or less based on original lease commencement date and instead recognize the lease payments on a straight line basis over the lease term. Adoption of this standard resulted in the recording of net operating lease right-of-use assets and corresponding operating lease liabilities of $0.7 million for rented office spaces.

Our office space leases have remaining lease terms of one year to 3 years. Some of these operating leases include options to extend the lease terms, and some operating leases include options to terminate the leases earlier than the full terms. These options are considered in our determination of the valuation of our right-of-use assets and lease liabilities.

None of our operating leases include implicit rates, and we have determined that the difference between the contractual cost basis and the present value of lease payments calculated using incremental borrowing rates is not material. Our operating lease costs for the three months ended March 31, 2019 were $136 (reflected in Net cash used in operating activities). The weighted average remaining lease term of our operating leases as of March 31, 2019 was 2.4 years.

Future minimum operating lease payments are as follows:



	2019		2020		2021		2022		Total
Minimum lease payments	$	236	$	241	$	149	$	13	$	639