A recent federal district court ruling serves as an important reminder that a former employee may be held liable for trade secret misappropriation even if the alleged trade secrets are not physically or electronically taken...more
1/29/2025
/ California ,
Confidential Information ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Employee Misconduct ,
Employment Contract ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Misappropriation ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Trade Secrets ,
Unfair Competition ,
Uniform Trade Secrets Acts
As previously reported, some Delaware courts have recently declined to “blue pencil,” i.e., modify and narrow overbroad restrictive covenants. Instead, they have stricken in their entirety covenants deemed overbroad and...more
In Samuelian v. Life Generations Healthcare, LLC, — Cal. App. 5th —, 2024 WL 3878448 (Cal. App. Aug. 20, 2024), the California Court of Appeal answered two long outstanding questions of California law concerning the...more
8/28/2024
/ Appeals ,
Business Operations ,
Business Ownership ,
California ,
Contract Terms ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Selling a Business
California has passed two new items of legislation, Senate Bill 699 and Assembly Bill 1076, which will further regulate and restrict the enforcement of employment non-compete agreements in California, and expand the scope of...more
California Labor Code Section 925 prohibits employers from requiring employees who reside and work primarily in California, as a condition of employment, to agree to any provision that would require the employee to litigate...more
Business-to-business contracts often concern trade secrets. Contracts such as NDAs, joint development agreements, license agreements, vendor agreements, and other commercial agreements commonly contain restrictive covenants...more
In Wadler v. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., No. 17-16193, 2019 WL 924827 (9th Cir. Feb. 26, 2019), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that statutes, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...more
3/5/2019
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Bribery ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Remand ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Retaliation ,
Reversal ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Whistleblowers
Please join us for Sheppard Mullin's bi-annual Labor & Employment Law Update & Happy Hour. There have been significant developments in California labor and employment law this year. We will explain how these new developments...more
9/15/2015
/ California Family Rights Act (CFRA) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Events ,
Forum Selection ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
Misclassification ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Same-Sex Marriage ,
Sick Leave ,
Termination ,
Title VII ,
Unpaid Interns ,
Wrongful Termination
On November 25, 2014, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed two ordinances that are collectively referred to as the San Francisco Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights: the “Hours and Retention Protections for Formula Retail...more
On Monday, July 21, 2014, the California Court of Appeal issued its opinion in Galen v. Redfin Corp., A138642. This case is important for two reasons: the court upheld an arbitration agreement between a Seattle-based company...more
In McDaniel v. Wells Fargo Investments, LLC, Nos. 11-17017, 11-55859, 11-55943, 11-55958, 2013 WL 1405949 (9th Cir. Apr. 9, 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of four class...more