Non-Compete Compliance in 2025: State Trends and Employer Strategies
Multijurisdictional Employers, P2: 2025 State-by-State Updates on Non-Compete/Non-Solicitation Agts
Legal Shifts in 2025 Put Employer Non-Compete Strategies at Risk - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Trade Secrets on Trial: Strategic Decisions for the Courtroom - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Update on the State of Non-compete Restrictions (LaborSpeak)
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 42: Non-Compete Agreements with Mitchell Greggs of Maynard Nexsen
#WorkforceWednesday®: Trade Secret Litigation - Lessons from High-Stakes Group Exits - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
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#WorkforceWednesday®: 2024’s Biggest Trade Secrets and Non-Compete Developments - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday®: Beyond Non-Competes - IP and Trade Secret Assessment Strategies for Employers - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
Labor Law Insider - Non-Competes, Including “Pay-or-Stay” Provisions, Under Continued Assault
#WorkforceWednesday®: Wizarding and the World of Trade Secrets - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
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Employment Law Now VIII-150 - The FTC Noncompete Rule is Dead: What Now?
California Employment News: Court Ruling Halts FTC’s Non-Compete Ban – Implications for Employers
#WorkforceWednesday®: What the FTC Non-Compete Ban Block Means for Employers - Employment Law This Week®
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Employment Law Edition: The Latest on Non-Competes and Independent Contractors
Balch’s Decision Dive: Texas Trial Court Struck Down the FTC’s Noncompete Rule
Employment Law Now VIII-146 - Latest Update on FTC Non-Compete Ban Plus 3 Summer Reminders for Employers
We have seen a rise in employees going on the offensive and suing their former employers for damages for not informing them that their noncompete is invalid under the applicable state law or for exaggerating the scope of a...more
In a case of first impression, the Washington Supreme Court interpreted Washington law regarding noncompete agreements to broadly protect employees who earn less than twice the state minimum wage from unreasonable...more
A recent decision from the United States District Court underscores the antitrust risks of non-solicitation clauses in service agreements. In St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center v. American Anesthesiology of Syracuse, P.C. et...more
As year-end nears, many employers are updating their key employment policies and agreements to ensure they align with ever-evolving federal, state, and local laws and changes to business needs. In Part One of this series, we...more
The recent federal court ruling striking down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule banning non-compete agreements has left many employers breathing a sigh of relief. However, this does not mean that non-compete...more
Real World Impact: Making good on her promise to make a ruling on the FTC Noncompete Rule on or before August 30, 2024, United States District Judge Ada Brown granted a motion for summary judgment that sets aside the FTC...more
Even though the FTC’s impending rule that will ban most non-competition agreements specifically carves out claims for violations that accrue before the rule goes into effect – an exception that many federal courts have...more
The Federal Trade Commission on April 23 approved a Final Rule banning almost all worker noncompete clauses (noncompete rule). Absent a court entering a nationwide injunction or vacating the rule, it is set to go into effect...more
The CFPB warned on July 24, 2024, that confidentiality agreements that employees of a company are required to sign likely violate federal law if those agreements imply that employees could face retaliation from their...more
On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published its final rule (the “Rule”) broadly banning most noncompete provisions in employment-related agreements and preventing employers from enforcing them. The Rule...more
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas last week issued an order and opinion granting a preliminary injunction staying the effective date for enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”)...more
When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its long-awaited final rule banning virtually all noncompete clauses between workers and employers, it also published 500-plus pages of commentary....more
The FTC’s recently issued Final Rule banning non-competes for most workers prohibits an employer from (1) threatening to enforce a non-compete against a worker, (2) advising the worker that, due to a non-compete, they should...more
On May 31, 2024, the Governor of Colorado signed House Bill 24-1324, titled “Attorney General Restrictive Employment Agreements,” putting into place a law to toughen protections for employees who are subject to abusive...more
Washington state law just changed in a way that might have made your company’s non-solicitation agreements unenforceable and illegal. Recent amendments to the state non-compete statute took effect on June 6 and significantly...more
As we recently reported, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its long-awaited final rule on April 23, 2024, banning virtually all noncompetition agreements between employers and workers. Lawsuits challenging the final...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted in a 3 to 2 decision along party lines to adopt its Final Non-Compete Clause Rule (“Noncompete Rule”) banning post-employment non-compete clauses between employers...more
In a novel and sweeping act of substantive rulemaking, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) determined that non-compete agreements between employers and workers constitute an “unfair method of competition” prohibited under...more
2023 was an eventful year for those following state and federal noncompete law developments. Federal agencies, state legislatures and courts continued to take steps to narrow the circumstances under which noncompetition...more
The US is not the only country currently debating reform to the law on non-competes. Notably the UK Government has announced legislation which would limit the duration of non-competes to a period of 3 months after the...more
When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more
As federal administrative agencies wade further into rulemaking and adjudicative efforts to outlaw noncompetes and restrictive covenants, defendants are beginning to raise preemption arguments in response to state court...more
California has done it again! We reported last month concerning California’s new non-compete law that furthers the state’s protections for employee mobility and seeks to void out of state employee non-compete agreements....more
On August 25, 2023, in Deslandes v. McDonald’s, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a district court’s dismissal of an antitrust case that challenged no-hire and non-solicitation clauses in McDonald’s...more
We are in the final stretch of the California legislature’s first year of a two-year session. One bill that sped through the legislative process—without any registered opposition—is Senate Bill 699, which extends the state’s...more