News & Analysis as of

Confidentiality Agreements Non-Disclosure Agreement Corporate Counsel

Littler

Utah Enacts New #MeToo-Inspired Law Related to Confidentiality Clauses

Littler on

Utah joins the growing list of states, including California, New Jersey and New York, enacting their own #MeToo-inspired laws prohibiting confidentiality clauses regarding sexual misconduct. The #MeToo movement seeks to limit...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

50 State Desktop Reference - What Businesses Need to Know about Non-Competes and Trade Secrets Law

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

Introduction - As we enter a new era of business landscape dynamics, Seyfarth Shaw is pleased to present the latest edition of our annual cornerstone publication. This comprehensive 50-State Non-Compete Desktop Reference,...more

Fisher Phillips

Congress Voids Sexual Harassment NDAs: 10 Things Employers Need to Know

Fisher Phillips on

Congress just passed a law Wednesday that will prevent employers from forcing victims of sexual harassment and assault to remain quiet in response to alleged abuse, requiring some businesses to alter their business practices...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

The Importance of a Work Made For Hire Agreement

It is ideal for a business to employ policies and strategies to own intellectual property, not merely to receive an assignment or license thereto. One tool for doing so is to ensure that copyrightable works are created under...more

Epstein Becker & Green

New California Law Further Restricts Confidentiality Provisions in Employment, Settlement, and Separation Agreements

Epstein Becker & Green on

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law the “Silenced No More Act” (SB 331 or the “Act”), which expands limitations on confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements for filed claims, previously...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Federal Circuit Reminds Plaintiffs to Specify Their Trade Secrets

One of the most common forms of business agreements that our clients enter into is the non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Whether to explore a potential partnership between two companies, to consider a proposed merger or...more

Saiber LLC

SDNY Rules that Trump Campaign Non-Disclosure is too Broad to Enforce

Saiber LLC on

In another strike against restrictive covenants in employment contracts, Judge Paul G. Gardephe of the Southern District of New York ruled in Jessica Denson v. Donald J. Trump For President, Inc. that the non-disclosure and...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Bloomberg Is Right About NDAs

(Not a political endorsement.) As you know, this blog is non-partisan, even if it kills us. But I couldn't help feeling sorry for Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday night when his fellow Democratic presidential candidates piled...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New York Employment Legislation Update: What’s New for 2020

New York will see a slew of new labor laws in 2020 which may have a substantial impact on employers in the state. Businesses in New York should plan ahead and prepare to adjust their employment policies and practices...more

Morgan Lewis

UK Proposes to Tighten Rules on Nondisclosure Agreements and Confidentiality Clauses

Morgan Lewis on

UK Business Minister Kelly Tolhurst on 4 March announced new legal proposals to tighten the rules on the use of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) and confidentiality clauses in an employment context, with a view to enhancing...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

California Appellate Panel Affirms Injunction Blocking Use Of Employee Non-Solicitation Provision In Dispute Between Travel Nurse...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

On November 1, 2018, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District affirmed a trial court’s ruling in AMN Healthcare, Inc. v. Aya Healthcare Services, Inc. et al., Case No. D071924, Cal. App (2018) which (1)...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Washington Law Prohibits Employers from Requiring Non-Disclosure Agreements Covering Sexual Harassment or Assault as a Condition...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law yesterday, March 22, 2018, a bill that addresses sexual harassment in the workplace. The law prohibits employers from requiring employees to sign a non-disclosure agreement...more

Fisher Phillips

Sexual Harassment Dominates California Legislation in 2018

Fisher Phillips on

As we discussed back in January, sexual harassment appears to be the hot topic for the California State Legislature’s 2018 session. This is certainly not a surprise, as issues related to sexual harassment and the #MeToo...more

Maynard Nexsen

Court Finds Broad Non-Disclosure Agreement is Unenforceable Non-Compete

Maynard Nexsen on

Last week, in the case of Fay v. Total Quality Logistics, LLC, the South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that language in a non-disclosure agreement was so broad it effectively became an invalid non-compete agreement. The...more

Baker Donelson

Maintaining the Magic: Disney's Use of Confidentiality Restrictions to Promote Character Integrity

Baker Donelson on

When your business depends on a carefully-crafted public image, you do not want the public to know how hard you work to maintain that image. These days, that includes preventing your employees from revealing too much via...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Confidentiality Agreements Not Enforceable in Absence of Reasonable Efforts to Preserve Confidentiality

McDermott Will & Emery on

nClosures Inc. v. Block and Company, Inc. - Applying Illinois law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reminded prospective business partners that non-disclosure agreements will not be effective by...more

Proskauer - Whistleblower Defense

Watchdogs Petition SEC to Strengthen Prohibitions Against Impeding Complaints to SEC

On July 18, 2014, a coalition of plaintiff-side lawyers and government watchdog groups proposed ways to strengthen the SEC whistleblower program in two petitions filed with the SEC. The groups urged the SEC to update Rule...more

BakerHostetler

Leave My Employees Alone! You Promised You Wouldn’t Hire/Solicit Them

BakerHostetler on

With the antitrust class action against Google, Apple, Intel and other Silicon Valley heavyweights nearly in the books ($300 million plus in settlements and millions more in defense fees later), it is time once again to ask...more

18 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide