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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 -

Coming Soon: Changes to State Noncompete Laws in Virginia, Arkansas, and Wyoming

ArentFox Schiff on 4/10/2025

Noncompete provisions continue to be governed by a constantly changing patchwork of state level legislation. In general, recent laws tend to limit their use among low wage earners or individuals in certain professions, such...more

Wyoming Enacts Law to Restrict the Use of Noncompete Agreements

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/3/2025

Employers in Wyoming will soon be limited in their use of noncompete agreements under a newly enacted law that makes the state the latest of a growing number of states to restrict noncompete agreements in the employment...more

July 2021: The Top 14 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 8/4/2021

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Two New England States Pass Legislation Restricting Physician Non-Competes

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/23/2016

We’ve written a lot this summer about the Massachusetts legislature’s latest failed attempt at non-compete reform. Two other states in New England, however, are able to claim accomplishments in that regard. Specifically,...more

Mid-Year Review: New Non-Compete Legislation in 2016

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on 7/14/2016

In the first half of 2016, we have already seen significant changes to a number of state non-compete laws. In this post, we provide a compilation of recently enacted legislation in Alabama, Connecticut, Idaho, Oregon, and...more

Medical Non-Competes in Rhode Island: No Clean Bill of Health

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. on 4/26/2016

The Rhode Island Superior Court recently refused to enforce a non-compete agreement against a local physician because it was against the public interest. Medicine and Long Term Care Associates, LLC v. Khurshid, PC 2015-0458,...more

Rhode Island Trial Court Decision Could Spell Trouble for Employers Seeking to Enforce Restrictive Covenants Against Healthcare...

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/25/2016

One of an employer’s first steps in a suit against a former employee to enforce a restrictive covenant is to seek a preliminary injunction to prevent the employee from continuing to violate his or her contractual obligations....more

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