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Hiring in the hot seat – the CMA publishes new guidance on labour markets

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In recent years, competition authorities around the world have increasingly focused on labour markets. Following recent enforcement activity in the US, the EU and France (as well as in the UK), the CMA has further signalled...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Poaching Employees Landed Generator Maker into Hot Water

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In a recent trade secrets litigation in the United States District Court in the Northern District of California, a jury awarded the plaintiffs 40 million dollars, half of which was punitive damages. The Court also...more

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Federal Regulators Taking Aim at Anti-Competitive Employment Practices

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Employers in every sector use restrictive covenants to guard against loss of institutional knowledge, relationships, and training. These restrictive covenants come in three forms: “non-competition,” “non-solicitation,” and...more

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Worried About Trade Secret Poaching? Check in With Your Third-party Service Providers

Hiring external contractors is common practice in the fast-paced tech-industry where talent is scarce and in high-demand, but such a practice can expose a company’s most valuable IP to the confidentiality measures, or lack...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right – Trade Secrets Saga Concludes With No Damages Awarded

On Wednesday, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas declined to award any damages to Huawei Technologies Co., the world’s largest telecommunications company, stemming from its allegations of trade secret theft,...more

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Non-Compete News: Is a Non-Solicitation of Employees Provision Enforceable in California?

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Last month, California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal issued AMN Healthcare, Inc. v. Aya Healthcare Servs., Inc., 28 Cal. App. 5th 923 (Cal. Ct. App. 2018), a decision calling into question the validity of non-solicitation...more

Carlton Fields

Second Circuit Affirms Denial of Arbitration in Case Involving Misappropriation of Trade Secrets

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Medidata brought suit against its competitor, Veeva, alleging that Medidata’s former employees, who eventually left the company to work for Veeva, violated their employment agreements which required them to protect Medidata’s...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Are Financial Services Firms Reconsidering The Protocol?

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The Protocol for Broker Recruiting (“Protocol”) allows for reciprocal poaching of brokers. More specifically, if a broker leaves one Protocol firm for another Protocol firm, the broker can a) take certain account information...more

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