Document:

Exhibit
      10.4

    

    

    INVENTION
      AND SECRECY AGREEMENT

    

    

    This
      agreement is effective as of the 1st day of December 2005.

    

    BETWEEN

    

    Nutrition
      21, Inc.

     

    AND

     

    Dean
      M.
      DiMaria

    

    The
      parties agree as follows:

    

    
      	1.	
              In
                the Agreement:

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              "Company"
                shall mean Nutrition 21, Inc. and any corporation which either directly
                or
                indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control
                with
                Nutrition 21, Inc.

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              "Confidential
                Information" means any trade secret or confidential information possessed
                now or in the future by the Company or any associated company which
                has
                been disclosed to employee in connection with his employment with
                the
                Company which has commercial value for the businesses, investigations
                or
                research programs in which the Company is, or is likely to become
                engaged.
                Without limiting its scope the term includes information in the discovery
                or development of which the Employee participates during the period
                of
                his/her employment by the Company.

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              "Developments"
                means all ideas, processes, developments, designs, systems, programs,
                discoveries, inventions, improvements and writings, whether patentable
                or
                not.

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              "Employment"
                means employment by the Company.

            

    

    

    
      	
              2.

            	
              The
                Employee, in consideration of his/her employment by the Company,
                agrees as
                follows:

            

    

    

    
      
        	
              	(a)	
                That
                  he/she will not during the term of his/her employment engage in
                  any
                  activity competitive with or adverse to the welfare of the Company,
                  whether alone, as a partner or as an officer, director, employee
                  or major
                  shareholder of another corporation (i.e., at least 1% shareholder),
                  unless
                  he/she has the prior written consent of the
                  Company.

              

      

    

    

    Initials
      DDM
      

     

     

    
      
        
        

      

      
        1

        
          

        

      

      
        
        

      

    

     

    
      	
            	(b)	
              That
                he/she will during the term of his employment promptly disclose and
                assign
                to the Company the full rights to all Developments made by the Employee,
                whether alone or with others, which fall within the scope of the
                Company's
                businesses, investigations or research
                programs.

            

    

    

    As
      a
      matter of record the Employee attaches hereto a complete list of all relevant
      Developments made by him/her, alone or jointly with others, prior to his/her
      employment with the Company, which shall not be subject to this Agreement.
      If no
      such list is attached to this Agreement the Employee acknowledges that there
      are
      no such Developments.

    

    This
      agreement does not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies,
      facility or trade secret information of the Company was used and which was
      developed entirely on the Employee's time; and which (a) does not relate (1)
      to
      the business of the Company, or (2) to the Company's actual or demonstrably
      anticipated research or development, or (b) does not result from any work
      performed by the Employee for the Company.

    

    
      	
            	(c)	
              The
                Employee will both during and after his/her employment assist the
                Company,
                at the Company's expense, to obtain, maintain and enforce for the
                Company
                in any and all countries patents and copyrights on all Developments
                assigned by the Employee to the Company as above provided, and for
                such
                purpose the Employee shall sign all documents as the Company may
                reasonably request. If the Company is unable for any reason to secure
                the
                Employee's signature to any document required to apply for or execute
                any
                patent application with respect to such Development, or to any related
                document, the Employee hereby irrevocably appoints the Company as
                his/her
                agent and attorney to act in his/her stead to execute and file any
                such
                document and to do all other acts to further the issuance of patents
                thereon with the same legal force and effect as if executed by
                him.

            

    

    

    
      	
            	(d)	
              All
                Confidential Information and all patents and other rights in connection
                therewith shall be the sole property of the Company and its assigns.
                The
                Employee hereby assigns to the Company any rights the Employee may
                have or
                may acquire in the Confidential
                Information.

            

    

    

    The
      Employee undertakes that throughout his/her employment by the Company and
      thereafter for as long as the Company's interests require it, he/she will hold
      all the Confidential Information in the strictest confidence and will not
      without the Company's written permission divulge such information to others
      except for the purposes of the Company's business.

     

    
      
        	
              	(e)	
                The
                  Employee agrees to deliver to the Company all records of every
                  type and
                  all copies thereof, which relate to Confidential Information upon
                  termination of his/her employment.

              

      

       

    

    Initials
      DDM

    

    
      
        
        

      

      
        2

        
          

        

      

      
        
        

      

    

     

    
      	3.	
              The
                Company agrees to consider promptly and in good faith, but without
                obligation, any request by the Employee to release any of its rights
                to
                Developments assigned to the Company under this
                Agreement.

            

    

    

    
      	4.	
              Without
                any prejudice to any other remedies available to the Company in respect
                of
                a breach of this Agreement, the Company shall be entitled to seek
                an
                injunction restraining the Employee from committing a breach or threatened
                breach of the terms of this
                Agreement.

            

    

    

    
      	5.	
              This
                Agreement

            

    

    

    
      	
            	(a)	
              Constitutes
                the entire agreement between the parties in respect of the matters
                dealt
                with herein and replaces all previous agreements or
                understandings.

            

    

    

    
      	
            	(b)	
              May
                only be amended by a further agreement in writing signed by the
                parties.

            

    

    

    
      	
            	(c)	
              Shall
                ensure to the benefit of the Company's successors and
                assigns.

            

    

    

    
      	
            	(d)	
              Shall
                be governed by the laws of the State of New
                York.

            

    

    

    IN
      WITNESS WHEREOF
      the
      parties have executed this Agreement as of the date and year first written
      above.

    

    
      	NUTRITION
              21,
              INC.	 	 	Dean
              DiMaria
              
	 	 	 	 	 
	BY:	/s/ Benjamin
              T. Sporn	 	 	BY:	/s/ Dean
              DiMaria
	 	
              
Benjamin
              T. Sporn	 	 	 	
              

            
	 	TITLE:
              General
              Counsel

              

            	 	 	 	DATE:
              December 1,
              2005

              

            

    

    

    
      
        
        

      

      
        3Exhibit
      10.1

     

    Form
      of Compensatory Award to Non-employee Directors

    
       

      

      1.    Compensatory
        Award.
        Upon
        the recommendation of the Compensation Committee and the action of the Board
        of
        Directors, Hill International, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby grants, effective as
        of August 16, 2006, to ____________ (“Grantee”), a non-employee director of the
        Company, the following items of compensation for his service on the Board
        of
        Directors:

       

      (a)    an
        annual
        director’s fee of $20,000 payable quarterly;

       

      (b)    in
        the case
        of the Audit Committee Chairman, an additional $4,500 annual payment, and
        in the
        case of the Chairman of the Compensation Committee and the Chairman of the
        Governance and Nominating Committee, each an additional $2,000
        annually;

      

      (c)    6,000
        shares
        of common stock of the Company; and

      

      (d)    non-qualified
        stock options on 5,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, with an exercise
        price to be the closing price at the close of trading on August 16, 2006,
        issued
        pursuant to the 2006 Employee Stock Option Plan. The option grants shall
        vest
        immediately and each stock option will terminate five years from the date
        of the
        grant.

      

      2.    Award
        Not to Create Board Entitlement.
        The
        Award granted hereunder shall not confer upon Grantee any right to continue
        on
        the Board.

      

       

      3.    Miscellaneous.

       

      (a)    The
        address for Grantee to which notice, demands and other communications are
        to be
        given  or
        delivered under or by reason of the provisions hereof shall be the Grantee’s
        address as  reflected
        in the Company’s records.

       

      (b)    This
        Award and all questions relating to its validity, interpretation, performance
        and  enforcement
        shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State
        of
        New  Jersey.
        

       

       

      HILL
        INTERNATIONAL, INC.

       

       

      By:
        _______________________

      Title:
        Chairman and CEO

       

      Accepted:

       

      _____________________

      [Name
        of
        Director]

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