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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently turned its focus to employee noncompete clauses, with the agency announcing a proposed regulation on January 5, 2023 that would implement a near-comprehensive ban across the...more
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As has been well-chronicled in this blog, Massachusetts and many other states (and even the federal government) have been grappling with proposed legislation that would ban or severely limit non-competes in employment...more
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