The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found its first target under recent guidance issued in a memo from its General Counsel claiming that noncompete agreements may violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)....more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law:
Trade secret and non-compete litigation can result in massive damage awards, but those cases can also be...more
As expected, on May 24, 2023, Governor Tim Walz signed a new law banning noncompete agreements in Minnesota. The ban will be effective for such agreements entered on or after July 1, 2023....more
Like the diversity of the industry itself, merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions in health care take many forms, varying in size and complexity.
While buyers tend to focus on several things as part of those transactions,...more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law:
Human capital often drives the value of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the health care industry....more
Christine Wilson, the only remaining Republican Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), published an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal today in which she announced her resignation from the FTC and explained her...more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law:
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed rule that would ban...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will be hosting a public forum on February 16, 2022, from 12:00-3:00 p.m. ET, to discuss its proposed nationwide noncompete ban. The forum is intended to supplement the...more
Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced legislation on February 1, 2023 entitled the Workforce Mobility Act (the “Act”). This bill has been introduced previously, but never made it out of committee....more
As we predicted, earlier today, 100 industry organizations submitted a request to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to extend the comment period for its proposed rule banning noncompetes nationwide by an additional 60 days....more
As previously reported, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule on January 5, 2023, that would ban noncompetes nationwide. There are serious questions about the FTC’s authority to promulgate such a rule and many...more
1/19/2023
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This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law:
The holidays are over, and year-end bonuses are being paid, making January and the first quarter a...more
“Practices that three unelected bureaucrats find distasteful will be labeled with nefarious adjectives and summarily condemned, with little to no evidence of harm to competition. I fear the consequences for our economy, and...more
On Thursday, January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made headlines with its announcement that it is proposing a new rule that would ban employers from using noncompete clauses (the “rule”)....more
1/10/2023
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On Thursday, January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made headlines with its announcement that it is proposing a new rule that would ban employers from using noncompete clauses (the “rule”)....more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law.
The year is coming to a close, and it was a big one in the world of trade secrets and non-competes. In...more
Perhaps we were wrong. Or perhaps we were just not thinking creatively enough. After President Biden issued his “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” in which he “encourage[d]” the Federal Trade...more
It is no secret that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been largely unsuccessful in the criminal no poach cases it has brought to trial to date. Its most public loss came with the acquittals earlier this year of DaVita, a...more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law.
Non-compete agreements are generally unenforceable against lawyers, but there are some exceptions. In...more
It’s no secret that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been struggling financially for well over a decade. One means of combatting its struggles has been to contract with third-party resellers to market USPS services and...more
“The law is not a game, and . . . civil discovery is not a game of hide and seek. The decision in this case should encourage litigants to understand that it is risky business to recklessly or deliberately fail to produce...more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law.
An employer often overlooks training employees on what their restrictive covenant means and how to honor...more
9/21/2022
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As our antitrust colleagues explained recently, on August 26, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its “Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2022–2026,” as required under the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010. Readers...more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law.
Two and a half years into the pandemic, it appears that remote work is here to stay, to varying degrees,...more
As we have previously reported, the Colorado Assembly passed sweeping changes to the state’s noncompete law that, among other things, (1) set compensation floors for enforcement of both noncompetes ($101,250) and customer...more