Browse our blog posts on New York non-compete agreement infromation.
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One Area Where Courts Will Favor - and Enforce - NoncompetesAlthough, as a general rule, courts disfavor enforcing non-competes, there is one glaring exception to that rule - the area of franchise agreements
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Is PA Going to Join States Banning Non-Competes?PA's House Bill 1938, which was introduced a number of months ago, seeks to ban nearly all non-competes, and to prevent employers from contracting around it
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Vermont Draft Bill Seeks to Outlaw Nearly All Non-CompetesVermont Draft Bill H.556 seeks to ban non-competes, other than limited circumstances, such as the sale of a business or the dissolution of a partnership
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In Rare Move, Court Strikes Down Non-Compete From the Get-GoIt's not every day that you see a court strike down a non-compete in its entirety - and certainly not before discovery. Yet that's precisely what this Court did
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When Case Developments Make You Look Smarter Than You Are3 weeks ago, I wrote that IBM's lawsuit against Microsoft was "inane," and should be settled by briefly sidelining Ms. McIntyre. That's exactly what happened
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NJ Bill Proposes Very Strict Limits on Non-CompetesA few months ago, NJ's legislature proposed some of the strictest limits on non-compete agreements in the country. These bills do raise lots of questions.
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Why Yesterday's IBM v. Microsoft Non-Compete Suit is InaneYesterday, IBM sued Microsoft for poaching its chief diversity officer, Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, in violation of her non-compete with IBM. The lawsuit is inane.
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Why This Proposed Non-Compete Legislation is So MisguidedA new proposed bill seeking to outlaw non-compete agreements in limited circumstances is terribly misguided, explains NY non-compete attorney Jonathan Cooper
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With Non-Competes, Choose to Win the War, Not the BattleFollowing a two-day hearing in a bet-the-business case, we successfully resolved a non-compete case for our clients by focusing on their long-term plans
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PA Court: Noncompete Only Starts to Run from InjunctionIn a huge decision, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that the clock on a former employee's non-compete started to run from the date of the court's injunction
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No, My Firm's Fees on Noncompetes Are Not an Opening BidIn law, just as in any other business, it's important to know when to push a client away. And that's precisely what happened to me yesterday. And I was happy.
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When Employees Can (& Can't) Be Forced to Sign a Non-CompeteDifferent jurisdictions follow different competing policy arguments as to why (or why not) existing employees can be compelled to sign a non-compete