Social Media May Affect Compliance with Non-Solicitation Agreement

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,...

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Justice Department Requires Six High Tech Companies to Stop Entering

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...

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How to Keep Employees from Working for the Competition

The non-solicitation agreement keeps employees and customers from soliciting and recruiting from a company. Details and common issues are discussed. Many businesses require top-level executives and key managers and directors to sign a non-solicitation agreement. The buyer of a business may also require the seller to sign a non-solicitation agreement to prevent the seller from taking customers and employees away from...

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