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Corporate Counsel

With Noncompetes Out, Businesses May Swivel to 'Garden Leave,' Other Ways to Protect IP

"Nonsolicitation agreements will be that much more important, that much more of a prevalent part of how private entities regulate ... or manage the market for employment and employment mobility," said John Siegal, a Baker & Hostetler partner.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Challenges to Noncompete Ban Already Hitting Courts, Setting Up Showdown Over FTC's Powers

"If you take this to its natural extension, the FTC is invalidating hundreds and hundreds of years of a common law, of statutes being implemented on this topic," Jason Tremblay, a partner with Saul Ewing, said.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The End of Noncompetes? Anxious Clients Are Calling Their Lawyers

"I'm a defense lawyer primarily, but at the end of the day, noncompete agreements were not meant to be a tool to prevent your midlevel workers from going from Company A to Company B," employment attorney Michael Elkins said.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

SpaceX Wants These Judges Off Its Case

The lawsuit was filed only after the Fifth Circuit surprised SpaceX attorneys by affirming a district court transfer of the dispute to the Central District of California.
4 minute read

The Recorder

'Unethical Billing' Claims Resurface in Latest Discrimination Suit Against Lewis Brisbois

Julie O'Dell, now the deputy leader of Armstrong Teasdale's employment and labor practice, also alleges that as an equity partner at Lewis Brisbois, she was paid less than her male counterparts.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

FTC Sets Tuesday Vote on Controversial Noncompete-Agreements Ban

"The freedom to change jobs is core to economic liberty and to a competitive, thriving economy," Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Pizzeria Owner Slices a Piece of the Pie for Themselves: A Warning to New York Employers Not To Keep All the Dough

Recent headlines demonstrate that New York is taking wage theft very seriously. In March 2024, the owner and a manager of Grimaldi's Pizzeria were indicted for the crime of scheme to defraud in the first degree as well as several counts of failure to pay wages in violation of New York Labor Law.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Who Got the Work? Littler Mendelson to Defend Aon

"Mr. Garnder knew he could not reasonably meet the expectations of the [performance improvement plan] by October 15, making his termination the following day a foregone conclusion," the complaint claimed.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

D.C. Circuit Upholds Standing in Forced Child Labor Case, but Limits Scope of What Constitutes a 'Venture'

Section 1595(a) of the TVPRA provides a civil remedy against perpetrators and anyone who "knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value from participation in a venture which that person knew or should have known has engaged in an act in violation." The use of a "knowingly benefits" standard of liability is fairly novel and raises some important questions.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Trucking Firm Fighting NLRB Order to Reopen Operation It Shuttered in 2020 Amid Strike Rumors

Quickway Transportation asserts that letting an NLRB ruling stand "would eviscerate an employer's right to close its business for any reason."
6 minute read

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