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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... more +
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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Client Alert: Florida’s New Employer-Friendly Noncompete Law Signals That It’s Open for Business

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While many states recently have enacted laws making it harder for employers to enforce noncompetes, Florida is bucking the trend by enacting some of the strongest noncompete protections in the country. The newly enacted...more

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[Podcast] Slings and Arrows: Trade Secret Trends Reflect a Need for Safeguards

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Consider trade secret enforcement your armor on the battlefields of IP. Given greater exposure to cybersecurity breaches and data theft, a murky future for employee noncompete agreements, AI algorithms that challenge the...more

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Enforcing a Non-Compete Against a Former Employee in California

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What happens when a senior executive leaves a Massachusetts company, with which he has a non-compete, to go to work for a competitor in California, which forbids most non-competes? This question was front and center when...more

Miles Mediation & Arbitration

Good Riddance? The Uncertain Future of Covenants Not to Compete

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I have a complicated relationship with my favorite Green Day song. Why is a song most often played as the backdrop to graduation videos hoping you “had the time of your life” called, “Good Riddance”? I am similarly...more

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Federal Trade Commission Approves Rule Banning Most Noncompetes

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Today the Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to approve a Final Rule that, absent a successful legal challenge, will ban most noncompete agreements in the United States beginning 120 days after publication in the Federal...more

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2023 Trade Secrets End of Year Report

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2023 was a banner year for trade secrets, non-competes, and other restrictive covenants. Employee non-competes continued to garner attention at the federal agency level, drawing commentary and action from the Federal Trade...more

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Three Investigations Show D.C. AG Is Aggressively Enforcing Ban on Noncompetes

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Employers in the District of Columbia that use noncompete agreements take note: the D.C. Office of the Attorney General ("OAG") is aggressively using its powers to crack down and assess penalties on businesses that violate...more

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[Podcast]: In a World Without Non-Competes

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In this episode of The Proskauer Brief we are joined by Daryl Leon, one of the leads of Proskauer’s Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition Group and Edna Guerrasio, senior counsel in the Labor &...more

Holland & Hart LLP

Minnesota Reforms Law to Ban (Almost) All Noncompete Agreements

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Agreements not to compete have existed as part of the common law for hundreds of years.1 These restraining agreements are designed to reduce economic harm to an employer when a “key” employee departs and are often required at...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Noncompetes Are in the NLRB’s Crosshairs – Can Trade Secret Protections Save Them?

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Can you still have noncompete agreements with your employees? What if you explicitly state that the agreement protects trade secrets or other proprietary information? There has been a lot of buzz about this issue, and...more

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The Five Pitfalls for Employers to Avoid When Exiting Employees

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In today’s competitive employment market, employee resignations are reaching near record-highs. Whether a separation is voluntary or involuntary, employee terminations often happen quickly and involve many moving parts. To...more

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DC Finally Prunes its Ban on Non-Competes

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When initially enacted in January 2021, the District of Columbia’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act was one of the broadest non-compete prohibitions in the country.  Its effective date, however, was delayed on...more

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Employers Beware: Colorado Criminalizes Enforcement of Overbroad Non-Competes

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In keeping with the national trend of aggressively pursuing limitations on or prohibitions against non-competition agreements, the State of Colorado recently enacted first-of-its-kind criminal penalties for employers seeking...more

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To Compete or Not to Compete: Is That the Question?

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A June 8, 2014 New York Times article highlighted an increasing trend in the areas of antitrust, competition, and employment law: the enforcement of covenants not to compete. As noted in the article, businesses have...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Take 5 Newsletter: Restrictive Covenants, Federal Trade Secret Enforcement Initiative, Uniform Trade Secrets Act, Liability for...

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In the area of trade secrets and non-compete law, there continue to be notable developments at the state and federal levels. Here are five recent ones. ...more

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