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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -

Careful Drafting Required: Restrictions on Employee Solicitation Subject to Wisconsin Non-Compete Law

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/5/2018

Many employers want to prevent their trusted employees from leaving the company and poaching their employees. In Manitowoc Company, Inc. v. Lanning, No. 2015AP1530 (January 19, 2018), the Supreme Court of Wisconsin examined a...more

Wisconsin Employers: Have You Had Your Non-Compete Agreements Reviewed Recently? Recent Court Case Invalidates Non-Solicitation...

Ruder Ware on 1/31/2018

What WI employers need to know: Wisconsin employers must immediately revise their non-compete agreements so as to comply with this recent decision. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that an employee non-solicitation...more

Non-competes for Existing Employees May Require Additional Consideration

Foley & Lardner LLP on 1/23/2018

It is not uncommon for employers to ask existing employees to sign non-compete agreements. For example, new management may want to tighten up a company’s protections. Or, changes in the business may make the need for employee...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Continued Employment as Sufficient Consideration for Non-Compete

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on 12/3/2015

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held in Socko v. Mid-Atlantic Systems of CPA, Inc. that a non-compete is enforceable only if a current employee receives new consideration beyond continued employment. The Court held...more

Quirky Question #262, An update on Wisconsin non-competes

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/8/2015

Question: We are a Wisconsin employer that recently lost a number of employees to a direct competitor in our region. As a result, we are now in the process of having all of our employees sign non-compete agreements...more

Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Continued Employment is Lawful Consideration to Support a Restrictive Covenant

Littler on 6/3/2015

Wisconsin has firmly joined the majority of jurisdictions in the United States that hold that continued employment constitutes lawful consideration sufficient to enforce a restrictive covenant with a current at-will employee....more

Wisconsin Joins Illinois in Addressing Whether Continued Employment Constitutes Lawful Consideration for Mid-Stream Non-Competes

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/2/2015

The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently brought much needed clarity to Wisconsin employers — and helpful guidance for other jurisdictions — in ruling that continued at-will employment constitutes legal consideration to support a...more

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