Legal Alert | NLRB ALJ Finds Post Employment Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Provisions Unlawful
#WorkforceWednesday: Non-Compete Law Update – Key Developments from 2023 - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Podcast - The Latest on Antitrust and Non-Compete Agreements in Healthcare
#WorkforceWednesday: Noncompete Bans Spread to New York and Beyond - Employment Law This Week®
Exploring the FTC’s Proposed Ban on Noncompetes (Fairly Competing, Episode 20)
Trade Secret / Restrictive Covenant 2022 Year In Review (Fairly Competing, Episode 19)
#WorkforceWednesday: Spilling Secrets: Employers - Train on Trade Secrets - Employment Law This Week®
Sign on the Dotted Line: Negotiating an Effective Employment Agreement
#WorkforceWednesday: Spilling Secrets: Restrictive Covenants in the Remote Work Boom - Employment Law This Week®
MLM Defense: FTC Earnings Claims and Nonsolicitation Clauses
#WorkforceWednesday: Pay Data Collection Study, Colorado Non-Compete Restrictions, D.C. Circuit Vacates Browning-Ferris - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: Spilling Secrets: Hiring from a Competitor? Don't Get Sued. - Employment Law This Week®
NGE On Demand: "What do Foreign-based Employers Need to Know About U.S. Employment Law?" with Sonya Rosenberg
Reasonable minds can differ: Part 2
Revisiting Executive Compensation and Employee Incentive Plans
Non-Competes and Other Restrictive Covenants: Two Perspectives, One Clear Picture
Non-Competes Are Not So Bad! The Current Law and Why Proposed Legislation in Congress is an Overreaction
National Backlash Builds Against Non-Compete Agreements - Employment Law This Week® - Trending News
III-42-The New Overtime Rule and Antitrust Issues With Your Non-Competes
Employment Law This Week®: Crackdown on Non-Solicitation Agreements, DOL Opinion Letters, New NLRB Member, State Law Developments
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Maven Advantage, Inc. and Square One Storm Restoration, LLC are competing roofing businesses. Maven alleged that two employees (Couch and Daniels) stole Maven’s trade secrets (customer lists) and then quit to work for Square...more
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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction restricting a former employee from working for conflicting organizations or communicating with a competitor’s counsel....more
A New Jersey federal court denied a franchisor’s motion for preliminary injunction against a franchisee due to franchisor’s 11 month delay in bringing the motion. Franchisee entered into two franchise agreements with H-1 Auto...more
A federal court in Louisiana granted a preliminary injunction against a former franchisee of Liberty Tax Service for breaching post-termination covenants under a franchise agreement. Liberty Tax entered into franchise...more
A recent blog post discussed an Illinois state court decision evaluating an employer’s claim against a former employee for breach of a non-solicitation agreement, when the employee had added former co-workers on LinkedIn...more
When a company believes that an employee has breached a non-compete agreement by going to work for a competitor, one remedy it can seek is a preliminary injunction. A preliminary injunction is meant to preserve the status quo...more
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On October 27, 2016, the Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s order denying an application for temporary injunction seeking to enjoin Thomas Musgrave, the former president of Henry F. Coffeen III Management,...more
As our various courts decide cases, we watch to see if there are any trends that seem to be developing or whether a case signals that the courts are beginning to change how they view a particular issue or type of case. We've...more