Our New York Non-Compete Blog for Employees on the Move

Our blog breaks down what really happens when you leave a job with a non-compete in New York. From planning a clean resignation to understanding when a covenant would actually hold up, these posts help employees and executives weigh their next move clearly—in plain English, before they give notice.

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Practice Areas

Jonathan Cooper represents businesses and individuals in business and commercial litigation cases including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, as well as New York child accidents, construction site accidents and personal injury cases.

Non-Compete/Trade Secret Agreements

Thinking about leaving your job but staring at a non-compete you signed years ago? Worried a former employee just walked out the door with your clients—or your confidential files?...

Leaving a Job With a Non-Compete

You found a better opportunity—but there is a non-compete sitting in a drawer with your signature on it, and now you are afraid one wrong move could blow up the whole thing. The s...

Non-Compete Defense

Getting served with a lawsuit—or even a threatening letter—over a non-compete you signed years ago is frightening. Your job, your paycheck, and your reputation can all feel ...

Enforcing a Non-Compete

A trusted employee just left for a competitor—and your clients, your confidential information, or your other employees may be walking out the door with them. You signed that non-c...

Breach of Fiduciary Duty

Contrary to popular belief, not all relationships qualify as a "fiduciary" one. Rather, a fiduciary relationship is created when there is a justifiably heightened degree of trust betwee...

Tortious Interference

With increasing frequency, the term "Tortious Interference" has been thrown around without a sufficient appreciation of the elements required to be shown in order to prevail on the...

Breach of Contract

Generally speaking, a contract is where two sides have a "meeting of the minds," and agree to become mutually obligated to each other. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that a br...

Business Litigation

Our New York employment law website is dedicated to answering the questions you may have about issues pertaining to non-compete agreements, breach of contract in general, and when third...

School Negligence/Liability

Long Island, New York school negligence and liability attorney and published author Jonathan Cooper has written extensively on how to prove your school injury case under New Y...