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Non-Compete Agreements › Discovery

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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -

[Webinar] Trends in Antitrust Litigation - June 14th, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm ET

TransPerfect Legal on 5/24/2024

Join us for an engaging CLE program when our panel of antitrust experts will discuss the latest trends in antitrust litigation, regulation and enforcement. We’ll explore recent changes to competition regulation in the U.S.,...more

Ohio Appeals Court Finds Error in Not Staying Discovery Pending Motion to Compel Arbitration

McGlinchey Stafford on 5/8/2024

In Biotricity, Inc. v. DeJohn, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 113216, 2024-Ohio-1593, the Ohio Eighth Appellate District found that the trial court erred by refusing to stay discovery pending a ruling on a motion to compel...more

Employment Litigation: How to Prepare and Mitigate the Associated Risks

Reveal on 6/21/2023

From allegations of workplace discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination to violations of non-compete clauses or breaches of contract, lawsuits between organizations and their employees are an ever-present threat for...more

If the Proportionality Doesn’t Fit, Courts May Cost-Shift

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 10/2/2020

Generally, the party producing discovery bears the costs of production. But, shifting to the non-producing party the costs of production is sometimes warranted. This issue was recently tackled by a Kansas District Court in...more

Texas Pre-Suit Discovery – Obligations Under Unusual Procedure Clarified

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/26/2017

Although most employers are very familiar with the usual discovery process of litigation, they may not be as familiar with the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure’s Rule 202, which concerns pre-suit depositions. Rule 202 can be...more

Selective Enforcement Not A Viable Defense to Non-Competition Agreements Under Ohio Law

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/13/2017

Employers sometimes worry whether seeking to enforce their non-competes in some circumstances but not others might preclude enforcement altogether in the future. Not so, says one court. Applying Ohio law, the United States...more

Jawbone v. Fitbit: a Discovery Fight over the Extent of Trade Secret Misappropriation

Fisher Phillips on 3/18/2016

Jawbone and Fitbit are competitors in the business of selling fitness trackers. As competitors will sometimes do, Fitbit hired a number of employees from Jawbone in 2015. And as competitors sometimes do, Jawbone brought a...more

Perspectives From the Bench: A Recap of the AIPLA Trade Secret Law Summit’s Judicial Panel

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/16/2015

Several members of Seyfarth’s Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Competes Practice Group attended the AIPLA’s annual Trade Secret Law Summit on November 12-13, 2015. Rick Lutkus spoke on a panel that was moderated by Erik...more

Reducing Your Company’s Exposure to Trade Secret Litigation when Key Employees Come and Go

Morgan Lewis on 10/6/2015

THE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO - Within the span of two weeks, Mr. Smith and Mr. Wilson, two top managers from your $2 billion corporation, resign. Both managers had complete, unfettered access to your corporation’s trade...more

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