An attorney representing a telecom construction company asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday to adopt a rule saying that restrictive covenants are enforceable regardless of when they are signed, as long as both parties are aware of the employer’s intentions before the employee begins working.

Attorney Alan Frank of Frank Law Associates in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, made that argument to the justices in Rullex Co. v. Tel-Stream in an effort to have the court enforce a restrictive covenant agreement his client, Rullex Co. LLC, officially entered into with the defendant after the two companies began working together. The case is significant because it may give the high court an opportunity to clarify whether agreements that might be in negotiations at the start of an employment arrangement can contain enforceable restrictive covenants even though the document was not signed until after the work starts.

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