On January 5, 2023, the FTC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“proposed Rule”) that would ban most non-competition agreements in the United States and put to the wastebin the 50-state patchwork of laws that currently...more
For the last two decades, with the principal exception of California and a handful of other jurisdictions, non-competition covenants have been a standard component of the defense architecture for U.S. companies to protect...more