Perhaps we have been improper. Or maybe we have been simply not considering creatively sufficient. After President Biden issued his “Government Order on Selling Competitors within the American Financial system,” through which he “encourage[d]” the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) to …
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A decide within the Northern District of Texas not too long ago declined to dismiss a lawsuit, CiCi Enterprises LP et al. v. Mucho Pizza, LLC et al., alleging a pizza franchisee failed to keep up the confidentiality of
As we previously reported, Minnesota will soon become only the fourth state (along with California, Oklahoma and North Dakota) to ban non-competitors.
The state’s new law renders void and unenforceable all covenants not to compete entered by employees or independent …
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Trade secrets and non-compete litigation can result in massive damage awards, but those cases can also be unpredictable. Many viable trade secret claims went …
Continue ReadingThe National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer, Jennifer Abruzzo, issued a General Counsel memo today instructing the Labor Board’s Regional Directors of her position that noncompete clauses for employees protected by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) (ie., …
Continue ReadingOn May 17, 2023, US Senator Rob Wyden (D-OR) announced the release of a long-awaited report on the US Government Accountability Office’s multi-year investigation into the use of noncompete agreements across the US labor market. In announcing the release, Senator …
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Human capital often drives the value of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the health care industry. Buyers involved in these deals must retain …
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The inevitable disclosure doctrine, expected to be a widely used tool to protect trade secrets after the famous PepsiCo, Inc. v. Redmond case in …
Continue ReadingThomson Reuters Practical Law has released the 2023 update to “Garden Leave Provisions in Employment Agreements,” co-authored by our colleague Peter A. Steinmeyer and Lauri F. Rasnick.
The Note discusses garden leave provisions in employment agreements as an alternative or …
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