Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Other Competitive Restrictions: Restrictive Covenants and Non-Competes - New Challenges

Peter Steinmeyer, Member of the Firm, joins a panel discussion, "Restrictive Covenants and Non-Competes: New Challenges" the 7th Annual Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Other Competitive Restrictions Chicago Conference, hosted by Sandpiper Partners.

Topics include:

• Update on regulatory and legislative developments – FTC, New York, NLRB, new state laws
• What kinds of non-competes and other post-employment restrictions are best practices and for what categories of employees?  In what types of agreements should they be included?
• Hot issues:
  • Managing risks of on-boarding employees
  • Managing risks of departing employees
  • Use of arbitration provisions
  • Changing best practices given legislative activity, press attention, etc
  • Customer non-solicit and non-service agreements
  • Forfeiture for competition agreements and other “golden handcuffs”
  • Trends on narrowing or “blue penciling” overbroad non-competes
  • Garden leave provisions and/or paid and right to buy non-competes as alternatives to unpaid non-competes
• Recent case law developments concerning restrictive covenants

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