This week, on our Spilling Secrets podcast series, our panelists look back on the top trade secrets and non-compete stories of the year:
This year has been a rollercoaster for trade secrets and non-compete law. We’ve seen...more
This week, on a special episode of our Spilling Secrets podcast series, we break down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) purported nationwide non-compete ban and discuss what’s on the horizon for employers:
On April 23,...more
This week, in our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law, we’re discussing the current state of restrictive covenants in the health care industry:
Restrictive covenants are...more
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
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law:
The year 2023 was significant for trade secret and non-compete law, full of enforcement actions and...more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law:
Restrictions on non-competes have dominated the headlines this year. The Federal Trade Commission has...more
As we have previously discussed, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel is seeking to invalidate noncompete agreements on the untested legal theory that they violate the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRB...more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law:
Most restrictive covenant disputes are resolved out of court. However, what about the restrictive...more
As we wrote almost exactly a year ago – months before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its proposed noncompete rule – the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA made it clear that the FTC does not have the...more
7/5/2023
/ Clean Air Act ,
Confidential Information ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Debt Forgiveness ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Higher Education Act ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
SCOTUS ,
Student Loans ,
Trade Secrets ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
West Virginia v EPA
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
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:
The holidays are over, and year-end bonuses are being paid, making January and the first quarter a...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
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
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
/ Confidentiality Agreements ,
Employee Training ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Former Employer ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Misappropriation ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Trade Secrets
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
This week, we introduce Spilling Secrets, a new monthly podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law.
If you're hiring from a competitor amid the Great Resignation, one of your top priorities is not...more
Exchange Act Rule 21F-17, adopted in 2011 under the auspices of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, prohibits any person from taking any action to impede an individual from communicating...more