Understand how this legal document protects sensitive information such as trade secrets, proprietary processes, client lists, business practices, and other intellectual property. What Is a Non-Compete ...

The New York Legislature is set to make another attempt to ban non-competes for all but highly compensated individuals. At the end of the 2023 legislative session, the New York Legislature passed a ...

Companies may have routine non-compete agreements for low-level employees that they require everyone to sign before joining the company. Robinson suggests offering to sign an intellectual property ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. While non-compete agreements survived two federal agencies ...

On September 1, 2025, a new law went into effect giving physicians, dentists, nurses, and physician assistants (PAs) significant new non-compete protections in Texas. As a result, non-compete ...

Three physicians affiliated with an AmSurg-partnered center argued in a federal antitrust lawsuit the ASC company has a monopoly over outpatient surgery centers and their non-compete agreement was ...

$6 Million Verdict Dispels 'Misconception' About Non-Compete Agreements, Winning Attorney Says “There’s a misconception throughout the country that non-compete agreements are unenforceable everywhere, ...

An arbitration panel has ruled against Hightower Holdings in its effort to enforce a non-compete agreement against a Washington State financial advisor whom the RIA accused of stealing company secrets ...

As the war for talent and clients' wallet share gets more heated, it's hardly surprising to see messy breakups play out between advisors and their former firms – even in the pro-independent RIA space.

Hightower has dismissed a lawsuit against Darren Reinig, a former Hightower advisor, alleging he violated non-compete agreements and stole trade secrets from the firm when he left three years ago. In ...

I resigned from my previous employer, and after three months, I was hired by another company. During the sixth month of employment with my new employer, I received a letter from a law office directing ...