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Most of us are all too familiar with the answer to seemingly every legal question: it depends. Perhaps no field of law embraces this adage quite as much as restrictive covenants, particularly non-compete and customer non-solicitation agreements. Cases involving breach of a restrictive covenant are typically highly fact specific.  The same is true for claims of misappropriation of trade secrets,...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with six high technology companies – Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., Intuit Inc. and Pixar – that prevents them from entering into no solicitation agreements for employees. The department said that the agreements eliminated a significant form of competition to attract highly...

Introduction and summary In 2016, sandwich chain Jimmy John’s made headlines when it agreed to stop requiring its workers to sign noncompete agreements through a settlement with the attorneys general of New York and Illinois.1 The case caught many worker advocates by surprise. It is well known that, in an effort to protect company trade secrets, corporations often require CEOs...

Employment Law This Week® April 24, 2018 Employment Law This Week® [1](Episode 114: Week of April 23, 2018)[2] has released bonus footage of its interview with Edward J. Loya, Jr.,[3] a Member of the Firm at Epstein Becker Green. Mr. Loya discusses the first Department of Justice (DOJ) action resulting from its promise to crack down on non-solicitation agreements. The...