On Friday, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy . According to the Order, its goal is ...

Growing up in Philadelphia, there are few things more beloved than the Phillie Phanatic. Which is why I’m so intrigued by the lawsuit th...

A recent op-ed in the USAToday argues that the federal government should outlaw noncompete agreements because they trap workers in abusiv...

If you haven’t yet watched this week’s episode of Game of Thrones , consider yourself warned. There are spoilers below. Turn back now if y...

As many as 60% of employees who are laid-off, fired, or quit admit to stealing company data. Sometimes, they download information on thei...

All the way back in October 2014 , I wrote about an Illinois Jimmy John's franchisee that had required all of its employees to sign a No...

Hall v. Edgewood Partners Ins. Center (6th Cir. 12/14/18) [pdf] asks a question that we see arise often in litigation with former employee...

There is a right way to quit a job, and a wrong way to quit a job. Last week, a Twitter employee demonstrated the worst of the latter.

An Apple employee lost his job this week after his daughter, Brooke Amelia Peterson, posted a YouTube video of her dad’s brand new, unrelea...

In Bankers Life and Casualty Company v. American Senior Benefits  (Ill. Ct. App. 8/7/17) , Bankers Life sued a former sales manager, Grego...

At least half of my legal practice is serving as outside labor-and-employment counsel for small to midsize businesses. And, increasingly, ...

This week, the White House announced a call to action to reform non-compete agreements [pdf] . Instead of proposing sweeping federal legis...

Yesterday, President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 . It creates a uniform, federal standard for the protectio...

Consider the following language in a non-solicitation agreement: Neither PARTY will directly solicit for employment a current or former...

Tomaydo-Tomahhdo is a local sandwich shop, and a purveyor of damn fine paninis and wraps. As for litigation, let’s say its lunches are way b...

Do your employees use Dropbox (or Google Drive, or Box, or iCloud, etc.) to store work documents? The appeal of these cloud services is easy...

While the law of noncompete agreements is state-specific, generally you need three things to enforce such an agreement: reasonableness as t...

I’ve always thought that for an employer to enforce a non-competition agreement against an employee, the employee actually had to sign the ...

Taco Bell is defending claims by two former interns that they invented the Doritos taco nearly 20 years ago. They now want to be paid part o...

The most straightforward manner in which to prevent a former employee from jumping ship to one of your competitors is to have the employee s...