Contract Terms, Non-Compete Agreements, No-Poaching

New Jersey Bill Would Introduce Sweeping Noncompete and No-Poach Restrictions: Strategic Implications for Employers

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/30/2025

As anticipated, New Jersey has joined the growing list of state legislative efforts aimed at prohibiting or restricting the use of noncompetes and no-poach agreements....more

Global Non-Compete Reform – At a Glance Tracker: January 2024

Littler on 1/22/2024

The US is not the only country currently debating a reform to the law on non-competes (see here in relation to federal law and New York). Notably, the UK Government has announced legislation that would limit the duration of...more

Will Europe Follow the Proposed U.S. Ban on Non-competes?

Littler on 5/3/2023

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on January 5, 2023 a proposed ban on non-competes across the United States. With large global employers considering the implications of the proposed rulemaking, we reached out...more

Trade Secrets/Non-Compete Quarterly Update - Q3 2022

Benesch on 10/25/2022

Compared to Q1 and Q2 of 2022, Q3 was relatively slow with respect to trade secret legislation and significant restrictive covenant awards and/or case law. Still, and as described below, two new statutes require a company’s...more

Employee Talent Wars Gain Unprecedented Ammunition from Changing Antitrust Landscape

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/16/2022

The current labor market is fraught with challenges for employers. In the wake of the COVID-19 market disruptions, the demand for employees, especially for experienced or highly trained employees, far exceeds the supply....more

Law firm’s “no poaching” agreement escapes judicial review, and heads to arbitration

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 5/8/2019

Justice Saliann Scarpulla was faced with a motion by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to dismiss the Petition brought by the departing partners to stay arbitration in Selendy v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. ...more