This blog by the six-time published author Jonathan Cooper, is intended to educate the general public about issues of interest, particularly innovations and changes in the law, in the areas of non-compete agreements, breach of contract matters, school negligence (and/or negligent supervision), construction accidents, slip and/or trip and fall accidents, auto accidents, and, of course, defective or dangerous products.
For additional information on any of these topics, readers are encouraged to download these FREE e-books:
- To Compete or Not to Compete: The Definitive Insider's Guide to Non-Compete Agreements Under New York Law
- When Schools Fail to Protect Our Kids
- When You Don't Have a Written Agreement
- Why Most Accident Victims Do Not Recover the Full Value of Their Claim
- Why Are There So Few Successful Defective Products Lawsuits?
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Further Limiting Non-Competes, Oregon's New Non-Compete Law Pushes the Envelope When it comes to imposing strict limits on employers' use of non-competes, Oregon clearly isn't playing around, as its new noncompete laws make clear. -
What a Former Employer Likely Can - and Can't - Expect to Recover From a Disloyal Employee In the case of a former employee that was disloyal and violated their restrictive covenant, there are some things the employer likely can - and can't - recover -
Where NY's Courts Draw the Line on Liability Limitation Provisions Many are familiar with limited liability provisions in contracts; what is less known is that the courts have placed important limits on those provisions -
Why the Level of Intent Matters by Trade Secret Theft When it comes to misappropriation of trade secrets, the level of the defendant's intent is crucial, as a recent Delaware case held. -
DC on the Cusp of Enacting Broadest Noncompete Ban in the Nation Just last week, DC's council passed the Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Act of 2020, which proposes to nullify even those agreements that disallow moonlighting -
Appeals Court: Bankruptcy Doesn't Preempt Tortious Interference Claim Under NY Law A surprising decision from NY's Court of Appeals recently held that state law based tortious interference claims aren't necessarily preempted by bankruptcy -
Yes, Their Customer List Was Stolen. But It Was Clear They Had to Let it Go Yesterday, I was approached about a case where the potential client's customer list had been brazenly stolen from them. Here's why they had to let it go. -
Non-Compete Changes to Expect Under an Anticipated Biden Administration Assuming the 2020 election results aren't overturned, and Joe Biden becomes the next POTUS, some significant changes to non-compete law may be coming -
The Rare Instance Where Lawyers Can Be Held to a Non-Compete Under NY Law Yes, the general rule in NY is that lawyers can't be held to a non-compete. But the Court of Appeals has acknowledged a rare exception to that rule. -
The Difference Between Breach of Fiduciary Duty and Breach of Contract Claims An August 31 decision out of a Delaware court serves as a pointed reminder on the critical distinction between a claim for breach of fiduciary duty and contract -
What Happened When an Employee Forwarded Their Work Information to Their Private Email Account A recent decision from a New Jersey Federal Court highlights the dangers posed by forwarding or downloading work information to a private account -
How we Secured a TRO Against a Disloyal Employee, Even Before a Single Court Appearance Just yesterday, we were fortunate to secure a TRO against our client's former employee who had gone rogue - without even needing to argue it before the Court