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®
Navigating Restrictive Covenants in Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
#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®
#WorkforceWednesday®: After the Block - What’s Next for Employers and Non-Competes? - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
Exploring Employment Law Across Borders: Italy vs. US With White Lotus — Hiring to Firing Podcast
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
As we approach the end of the first quarter in 2025, we have seen notable developments in non-compete law over the last 12 months. As the new administration decides what to do with non-competes at the federal level, state...more
As we close out 2024 and look to 2025, I polled members of Spilman, myself included, to get their take on some of the biggest labor and employment developments from 2024 that have or will impact employers. You can find more...more
There are several legal challenges to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) ban on noncompete clauses in employment agreements. There have been multiple lawsuits in varying federal district courts that seek to delay or...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Non-Compete Rule, which was scheduled to become effective on September 4, 2024, was set aside last month by US District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v....more
This past April, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule (Rule) that amounted to a near total nationwide ban on employers’ use of non-compete agreements. Since its announcement, employers have actively attempted to...more
For those of you who have been following along with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) looming noncompete ban and the various challenges it has presented, there comes good news for employers from a Texas federal court....more
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rulemaking crusade suffered a serious blow this week, when Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas set aside the agency’s Final Rule that made most employment-related non-compete...more
Earlier this summer, Winstead’s Labor & Employment team reported that Judge Ada Brown in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction as applied only to the plaintiffs in Ryan LLC...more
A Texas federal court just struck down the FTC’s proposed ban on non-competition agreements on a nationwide basis mere weeks before it was set to take effect, meaning employers across the country can breathe a sigh of relief...more
Earlier this year, on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) barring nearly all non-competition provisions for most workers in the United States. The Final Rule is set...more
With the effective date of the FTC’s ban on non-competes looming, a federal Judge in Pennsylvania declines to issue a preliminary injunction. A federal judge in Pennsylvania recently declined to enter an injunction...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission finalized its rule enforcing a noncompete ban for a vast majority of workers. The noncompete ban is set to take effect on September 4, 2024. With limited exceptions, the rule...more
On July 23, 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Kelley Brisbon Hodge (E.D. Pa) denied the request of ATS Tree Services, LLC (ATS).[1], a tree care company operating in Eastern Pennsylvania, for issuance of a stay of the Sept. 4,...more
On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, which struck down decades of deference to administrative agencies known as “Chevron deference,” on July 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court...more
On Friday morning, the Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451, reversed its long-standing precedent in Chevron USA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1984), which required courts reviewing...more