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Lubin Austermuehle’s Chicago Non-Compete Agreement and Restrictive Covenant...
Super Lawyers named Chicago and Oak Brook non-compete agreement attorney Peter Lubin a Super Lawyer in the Categories of Class Action, Business Litigation, and Consumer Rights Litigation. Patrick...
View ArticleNevada Supreme Court Enforces Geographical Limit Requirement
When non-compete agreements first started to be used, they needed to establish a geographic perimeter in order to be enforceable. Non-compete agreements were intended to prevent workers from going to...
View ArticleNot All Non-Compete Agreements Are Created Equal
It has become increasingly common over the past few years for employers to include non-compete agreements in their employment contracts. In most cases, they are required to have geographic and time...
View ArticleFinancial Consultant Contacted Clients Before Leaving for Competitor
Although many financial planning companies rely on the relationship between the financial planner and the customer, E-Trade’s customers primarily conduct business online – usually without communicating...
View ArticleMaine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island Pass New Non-compete Agreement Laws
New England employers have seen a restricting on their ability to use non-compete agreements in recent weeks with the passage of new laws in Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. In a previous post,...
View ArticleAppeals Court Affirms Injunction Based on Non-Compete Clause in Franchise...
When a franchisor learned that its franchisee was building a competing app and planning to launch a new business in direct competition with it, it sued, seeking an injunction to prevent the launch of...
View ArticleNew Oregon Law Imposes Additional Requirements on Enforceability of...
Restrictive covenants such as covenants not to compete and non-solicitation agreements are key provisions of many employment agreements and are meant to protect the company’s proprietary information...
View ArticleCourt Grants Preliminary Injunction to CVS in Non-Compete Lawsuit against...
A U.S. District Court judge in Rhode Island recently granted CVS Pharmacy, Inc. a preliminary injunction to block an executive who ran its Caremark Retail Network from working for Amazon’s online...
View ArticleAlphatec CEO Wins Non-Compete Agreement Lawsuit Filed by Former Employer
In a series of partial summary judgment opinions, the Delaware Chancery Court threw out all non-competition and non-solicitation claims against Alphatec Holdings, Inc., a medical device company, and...
View ArticleDelaware Superior Court Approves “Garden Leave” for NDA and Non-Compete...
To combat the increasing restrictions in non-compete agreements, legislators throughout the United States have been passing laws to limit what restrictions employers can put in their non-compete...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Ex-CEO Hit with Non-Compete Agreement
Earlier this month McDonald’s announced suddenly that the board had voted to terminate CEO Steve Easterbrook due to a consensual relationship with another McDonald’s employee. The day after firing...
View ArticleNew Virginia Law Prohibits Use of Non-Compete Agreements with Low-Wage Employees
As we previously discussed here, the Virginia legislature was considering a bill earlier this year that would limit the use of non-compete agreements with certain categories of employees. Earlier this...
View ArticleAmazon Sues Former Marketing VP who Took Job at Google over Alleged Breach of...
E-commerce and tech behemoth, Amazon, has filed a lawsuit against the former vice president of marketing for its Amazon Web Services division, Brian Hall, alleging that his new role at Google Cloud...
View ArticleEmployee Claims His Signature Was Forged on Employment Contract
When workers get sued by their employer for breaching their employment contract, it’s fairly common for the workers to argue that the contract was invalid, but it’s less common for them to claim their...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Rules Non-Compete Agreement Unenforceable against...
Layoffs have become commonplace in the COVID-19 era as employers are forced to trim staff levels amid shelter-in-place orders. Many of these employers intend to rehire their former employees when the...
View ArticleFormer Google Engineer Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Theft of Trade...
We previously wrote about ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Google’s self-driving division, who was charged criminally for misappropriation of trade secrets prior to his...
View ArticleWinemaker Sues Ex-Employee for Starting Competing Business During Tenure
An employee of a wine-making company was sued by his former employer for starting a competing business while he was still serving as the company’s president. The company also alleged that he misused...
View ArticleSwimming Coach Sued by Former Employer for Launching Competing Company —...
If you think you’d be better off leaving your job to start your own company that does the same thing as your employer, you’d better check the terms of your employment contract first. A swimming coach...
View ArticleIllinois Set to Impose New Restrictions on Use of Non-Compete and...
Illinois recently joined a growing list of states that have passed laws constraining the use of restrictive covenants by employers. The Illinois legislature passed Senate Bill 672 which imposes...
View ArticleGovernor Pritzker Signs New Law Changing the Game on Non-Compete Agreements
As we previously wrote about, this May the Illinois legislature passed a major bill that significantly alters how and when employers can use restrictive covenants, such as non-compete and...
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