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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 -

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Baker Donelson on 8/29/2024

The Supreme Court of the United States issued its highly anticipated ruling in a pair of cases challenging the long-standing Chevron doctrine on June 28, 2024. Foreshadowed by decisions in recent years slighting Chevron, it...more

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Holland & Knight Health Dose: July 9, 2024

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/12/2024

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McDermott Will & Schulte on 5/29/2024

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for April 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including the Calendar Year (CY) 2025...more

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 1, May 2024

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 5/21/2024

Welcome to our inaugural issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! As such, we wanted to pull together our insights and pass them along to you. Our goal is to create a publication that is...more

FTC Chair Testifies Before House Subcommittee to Discuss Ongoing Work

Hinch Newman LLP on 5/17/2024

On May 15, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan appeared before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government to discuss the agency’s FY 2025 budget request and ongoing...more

HealthyCompetition.gov Portal Seeks Public Input on Healthcare Industry Practices

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP on 4/30/2024

Expanding the range of ways they can identify and investigate potential competition concerns in healthcare, DOJ, FTC, and HHS recently announced the introduction of HealthyCompetition.gov, a new portal through which the...more

McDermottPlus Check-Up: April 26, 2024

McDermott+ on 4/26/2024

A Quiet Healthcare Week on Capitol Hill. Congress was largely in recess this week, although the Senate returned briefly to complete consideration of a long-awaited foreign aid bill. Both chambers will return to session the...more

Finance in Five Minutes: Healthcare Finance Checkup

Paul Hastings LLP on 6/15/2023

While mergers and acquisitions, and attendant financings may not be at a blistering pace globally, the prognosis for deal activity in the healthcare sector remains healthy, in particular as the consolidation of providers, the...more

Nevada Seeks to Ban Non-Competes with Physicians

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/12/2023

The Nevada legislature passed new legislation recently that essentially bans all non-compete clauses in physician contracts while severely limiting the instances in which a hospital or psychiatric hospital may employ a...more

Iowa Takes Another Step in Limiting Non-Competes

Dentons on 5/17/2023

Over the last several years, HR managers have struggled with recruitment and retention, but few industries have had as much difficulty in obtaining adequate staff as healthcare. Recognizing these issues, during the 2022...more

Antitrust and Competition Healthcare Quarterly Update Q4 2022

Goodwin on 2/22/2023

The Impact of the FTC’s Proposed Sweeping Ban on Non-Competes - On January 5, 2023, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a new rule (the Proposed Rule) that would define an employer’s use of...more

Overview of President Biden’s Non-Compete Agreement Executive Order

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 7/21/2021

On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The Order, breathtaking in scope, asserts as a key goal the desire to improve the lives of consumers through...more

Executive Order Throws Down the Gauntlet for a New Era of Antitrust Enforcement

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/16/2021

On July 9, President Biden signed an executive order on promoting competition in the American economy, listing broad priorities for antitrust enforcement. In conjunction with this order, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and...more

White House Issues Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

King & Spalding on 7/12/2021

The White House announced today that President Joe Biden issued an expansive executive order designed to enhance competition across multiple sectors of the U.S. economy, including healthcare, technology, internet service,...more

Are You in Compliance? Rhode Island and New Hampshire Restrict Noncompetition Agreements

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/11/2019

As 2020 approaches, employers in New England may want to review their noncompetition agreements to determine whether they comply with recently enacted laws in Rhode Island and New Hampshire. In 2019, both states passed laws...more

Religious Institutions: October 2015

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/16/2015

Timely Topics - A non-compete clause, covenant not to compete or restrictive covenant is a contract provision under which one party agrees not to enter into or start a similar profession, trade or business in competition...more

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