Minnesota’s legislature rushed through several bills this year affecting recruiting and staffing associations and other service providers such as property management companies. One such law may, as ...

An insurance agency's contractual dispute against its former employees is moving forward to a bench trial to sort out questions regarding restrictive covenants in the parties' employment agreements, a ...

K&L Gates partner Steven Caponi argued for Payscale that the trial court was wrong to look at the contract in the abstract ...

Imagine paying millions to acquire a company only to later discover the restrictive covenants in the employment agreements of high-level executives were unenforceable. That’s precisely what happened ...

A High Court ruling shows why US-style restrictive covenants often fail when tested against English restraint-of-trade ...

This article is a joint publication of The American Prospect and Workday Magazine, a nonprofit newsroom devoted to holding the powerful accountable through the perspective of workers. Michael Rubke, a ...

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Pete is managing shareholder of the firm’s Chicago office. He counsels employers on a wide variety of workplace challenges, including protecting trade secrets and other valuable information and ...

For companies operating in a tight geographical market, where local competition is intense and where the sector is crowded, losing members of staff to a rival can often result in the loss of that ...