On August 20, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final Rule that the FTC enacted to ban non-compete agreements. Judge Brown held...more
8/22/2024
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Restrictive Covenants
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed into law three bills that create new obligations for Minnesota employers....more
6/5/2023
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State and Local Government
In this episode, we discuss what employers, in-house counsel, HR departments, and business owners need to know about effective confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements, and the future of non-compete agreements.
Mitch...more
Minnesota employers have 43 days to consider whether they want to beat the clock and enact or update non-compete agreements before July 1, 2023.
This week, the Minnesota legislature passed a labor appropriations bill...more
Summary -
The nationwide scrutiny of non-compete agreements continues in 2022. An increasing number of states are severely limiting, or absolutely prohibiting, the use of restrictive covenants. While for many years...more