There is a legal drama brewing between Elon Musk’s Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, formerly known as Facebook. The bone…
As a lawyer who represents individuals in non-compete lawsuits, I understand the complexities and intricacies that these agreements often contain.…
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo sent a memo to all Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers, setting forth her view that the…
Non-competes are becoming more prevalent. Once reserved for highly compensated employees, now one in five employees are bound by a noncompete. These employees become less employable outside the workplace and less valued inside the workplace.
This case should encourage employers and those selling their business to draft their non-competes with a more reasonable geographic scope (or else risk a court throwing the non-compete out altogether). But those who are asked to sign a non-compete should keep in mind that even if their non-compete is probably unenforceable, an employer can still sue to enforce it and cause the employee a lot of stress and attorneys’ fees.
So, an employee signs an employment agreement. The agreement contains (among other things) non-compete provision and a non-disclosure provision (NDA).…
As mentioned in the prior post, I was in court in October (2016) and tried a non-compete case for my…
I had a trial two weeks ago week. My client’s former employer (“Employer”) had sued him for breach of a…
So, one of the risks of fighting a non-compete is provisions that require employees to pay for their former employer’s attorneys fees if they lose the case: Seems fair. But, of course if fairness were the issue, the provision would be reciprocal and provide attorney’s fees for prevailing employees.
I have tried three cases in the last 12 months, but none more difficult than a non-compete case in Lexington…