It is always nice to get a different perspective on non-compete agreements, especially from the employee’s side. Florida employment lawyer Donna Hallman provides her top five ways to get out of a non-compete agreement in a recent article. […]
As discussed here previously, Texas non-compete and non-solicitation agreements are alive and well and the Texas Supreme Court has made them easier to enforce. Doctors are frequently the targets of non-competes and they are legal in the state of Texas. The […]
Mark Hurd and HP settled their lawsuit yesterday. Hurd will return restricted stock to HP (worth approximately $13.6 million) and continue to work for Oracle. What can we learn from the Hurd/HP affair? HP’s suit against Hurd was fraught […]
As discusssed here before, a former employee with an non-compete agreement usually has two choices in terms of challenging a non-compete. The first is to "compete" and then see what the former employer does. This could mean a lawsuit […]
A few months ago I profiled a non-compete/non-solicit lawsuit where the Plaintiff employer used LinkedIn communications as evidence to support their claims against several former employee recruiters. The case was covered in a number of media outlets and blogs. […]
As has been widely commented on, the Texas Supreme Court will determine whether stock options can serve as the basis for an employee’s non-compete agreement. The Dallas Court of Appeals, in Marsh USA v. Cook, ruled that options could not. A ruling […]
Last year there was discussion about the DOJ’s investigation of alleged improper hiring practices by companies like Google, Intel, IBM, and Apple. Apparently, the DOJ has stepped up the investigation according to a Wall Street Journal article. According to the article, […]
Minnesota based TEKsystems Inc. sued three former employees for violating non-compete and non-solicit agreements. TEKSystems is in the technical recruiting business and it claims one of the former employees was contacting its contract employees. The complaint alleges Defendant Brelyn Hammernik used LinkedIn to […]
Jay Shepherd’s recent post on "Rethinking non-competes" in his Gruntled Employee Blog got me thinking. His take was this: But if […]
In Texas a non-compete has to be ancillary to an otherwise enforceable agreement. What does this mean? The consideration (or value) in the separate agreement must give rise to the employer’s interest in keeping the employee from working and […]
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