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JONES DAY PRESENTS®: Employer Options in a Non-Noncompete World
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Trade Secret Litigation: The Power of Protection
#WorkforceWednesday: Bracket-Busting Trade Secret and Non-Compete Disputes in Sports - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
California Employment News: Top Developments in Wage and Hour Law for 2024 (Podcast)
California Employment News: Top Developments in Wage and Hour Law for 2024
#WorkforceWednesday: Latest Developments – Restrictive Covenants in the Health Care Industry - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
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#WorkforceWednesday: Invention Ownership - Why the Tense Matters in Employee IP Provisions - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: Non-Compete Law Update – Key Developments from 2023 - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
The FBI on Economic Espionage
#WorkforceWednesday: Restrictive Covenants Around the World - Challenges for Multinational Employers - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: Non-Compete Agreements in 2023: What Employers Need to Know - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: Attention Employers - How to Protect Trade Secrets in California - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: When a Restrictive Covenant Dispute Goes Beyond the Injunction Phase - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
In this episode, our very own Jennie Cluverius sits down with Tina and Christy for part 1 of an in-depth conversation on how employers can protect their most confidential information from misappropriation. Jennie shares her...more
*As of August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas has blocked the FTC's impending ban on non-compete agreements. Please see the update at the end of this alert. Trade secrets...more
Trade secrets exist, by definition, only if the owner takes reasonable measures to maintain their secrecy. This is true under the Federal, State and Uniform Trade Secret Acts. Companies have traditionally used...more
The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) impending Non-Compete Rule invalidating almost all non-compete agreements nationwide received new life after a recent federal decision in Pennsylvania district court. Employers and...more
AT A GLANCE - Employees in Germany are subject to statutory non-competition and non-solicitation obligations during an employment relationship. Similar statutory restrictions apply to directors and board members as long as...more
Amidst a wave of non-compete bans sweeping California, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Minnesota and, most recently, the nation via the Federal Trade Commission’s non-compete prohibition, Maine Governor Janet Mills departed from this...more
Part 3 of a Series on the Three Most Frequently Asked Questions Following the FTC’s Final Noncompete Rule - This is the final installment of our three-part series discussing employers’ most frequently asked questions in...more
Part 2 of a Series on the Three Most Frequently Asked Questions Following the FTC’s Final Noncompete Rule - This is the second installment of our three-part blog series that is intended to respond to employers’ three most...more
In this episode of Tech Talks, we discuss the Federal Trade Commission’s recent ban on non-compete agreements and its implications for employers, as well as strategies for protecting confidential information and trade...more
Everyone is talking about the new rule approved by the Federal Trade Commission on April 23 (published on May 7 and set to take effect – pending legal challenges – on September 4, 2024 ). It is referred to as the...more
On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Final Rule that renders invalid non-compete clauses in standard employment agreements. 16 C.F.R. § 910. Although some limited exceptions apply, this new regulation...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by a vote of 3-2 approved and issued its final rule that effectively bans employers’ use of all non-compete agreements (with very limited exceptions). The final rule is...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
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: Restrictive covenants, such as non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, are regulated differently...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
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
Introduction - The dissolution of an employment relationship can provoke conflict, uncertainty, and stress. The stress can be heightened when the departing employee is likely to compete with the former employer, using...more
What happens when an individual, to benefit their own employer, solicits confidential corporate information held by a spouse or partner? A damages award in the several millions may be the result. In BioPoint, Inc. v....more
Miles & Stockbridge’s Labor, Employment, Benefits & Immigration Practice Group presented its 21st annual Hot Topics in Employment Law seminar April 25 to clients from throughout Maryland and beyond. Topics covered included...more
The construction industry is full of valuable business information including customer lists, pricing information, project budgets, and more. The value of such information may be lost if it becomes known to a competitor or the...more
Recently, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted another public forum on its proposed rule to ban noncompetition agreements (noncompetes). While the public forum provided opportunity to those for and against noncompetes to...more
We are seeing a steep increase in restrictive covenants legislation across the country with laws and enforceability widely varied from state to state. So how do companies that have seen their workforce distributed in more...more
Throughout 2022, our dedicated Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Compete practice group hosted a series of CLE webinars that addressed significant trade secret and restrictive covenant issues facing companies today. This...more
You’ve passed all the interviews. You’ve negotiated the salary. Finally, you receive the job offer. It’s a great opportunity. There’s only one problem: you’ll be going to work for your company’s direct competitor. It’s time...more