This week, on our Spilling Secrets podcast series, our panelists discuss the ins and outs of trying trade secret cases in a courtroom:
What’s the secret to winning a trade secret trial? Find out in this compelling episode of...more
On Monday, March 3, 2025, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) heard argument in Miele v. Foundation Medicine, Inc., regarding whether the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act, G. L. c. 149, § 24L (the...more
Drawing from established precepts of Massachusetts law that a judge may fill in an omitted contractual term consistent with the intent of the parties, a Massachusetts Appeals Court recently affirmed a trial court’s conclusion...more
The Massachusetts appellate court decision in Tran v. Jennings Road Management, Corp., et al, gave the green light to an employee to pursue class action claims against her direct employer as well as a separate management...more
Recently, a Georgia federal district court permitted an employer’s counterclaims against its former employee-whistleblower to proceed in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) lawsuit after determining that the employer’s amended...more
On January 31, 2024, a Massachusetts trial court dismissed a claim against the Boston Globe alleging that the newspaper violated the commonwealth’s Wage Act by failing to pay an executive’s 2020 profit-share which the...more
2/6/2024
/ Boston Globe ,
Breach of Contract ,
Breach of Implied Contract ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Contract Disputes ,
Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Retaliation ,
State Labor Laws ,
Unjust Enrichment ,
Wage Act ,
Wage and Hour
In a bombshell ruling last year that upended longstanding Delaware law, the Delaware Chancery Court ruled in Ainslie v. Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., 2023 WL 106924 (Del. Ch. Jan. 4, 2023), that forfeiture-for-competition clauses,...more
2/1/2024
/ Competition ,
Confidential Information ,
Contract Terms ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Forfeiture Statutes ,
Former Employee ,
Incentive Compensation ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Partnership Agreements ,
Reasonableness Factors ,
Trade Secrets