The U.S. Supreme Court held on May 21 that class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements are enforceable. This is a major victory for employers. ...more
5/30/2018
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Class Action ,
Class Action Arbitration Waivers ,
Epic Systems Corp v Lewis ,
Ernst & Young v Morris ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Arbitration Act ,
Murphy Oil v NLRB ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
SCOTUS
Effective January 1, 2016, employers will have a new statutory remedy at their disposal for the protection of proprietary information and other property. The North Carolina Property Protection Act (PPA) states that any person...more
Learn how your company can prepare to act quickly and strategically to protect important relationships, information and trade secrets at the time that a key employee leaves. This webinar will review the latest developments in...more
10/16/2015
/ Assignments ,
Audits ,
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) ,
Cease and Desist ,
Change of Ownership ,
Confidential Information ,
Confidentiality Agreements ,
Consideration ,
Credibility ,
Customer Lists ,
Damages ,
Data Security ,
Disclosure ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Enforceability ,
Exit Interviews ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Injunctions ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Misappropriation ,
Mobile Devices ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Disclosure Agreement ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Personal Data ,
Pricing ,
Public Records Act ,
Restraining Orders ,
Separation ,
Stock Options ,
Stock Sale Agreements ,
Termination ,
Third-Party Relationships ,
Trade Secrets
Learn how your company can prepare to act quickly and strategically to protect important relationships, information and trade secrets at the time that a key employee leaves. This webinar will review the latest developments in...more
10/16/2015
Learn how your company can prepare to act quickly and strategically to protect important relationships, information and trade secrets at the time that a key employee leaves. This session will review the latest developments in...more
On May 7, 2015, Judge Gregory McGuire of the North Carolina Business Court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss a claim that a physician’s assistant breached non-competition and non-solicitation provisions in her employment...more
Trade secrets constitute the only category of intellectual property that is governed primarily by state law. This status may soon change—two bills, House Bill 5233 and Senate Bill 2267 were introduced in Congress last term to...more
It is black-letter law that a plaintiff must identify its trade secrets “with sufficient particularity so as to enable a defendant to delineate that which he is accused of misappropriating.” Analog Devices, Inc. v....more
As an update to the previous article, Massachusetts May Go Boldly...Where Only California and North Dakota Have Gone Before, Massachusetts state legislators dropped proposed restrictions on the enforcement of post-employment...more
North Carolina has long followed the “strict blue-pencil doctrine,” meaning that the court has two options when faced with an overly broad non-competition agreement:
- Strike the unreasonable portion of the non-compete if...more
Taking the position that noncompetition prohibitions in employment agreements stifle innovation, Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has introduced legislation, titled “The Growth and Opportunity Act of 2014,” that would...more
6/16/2014
In July 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an important decision limiting the claims employers can bring against disloyal current and former employees under the federal Computer Fraud and...more