Noncompete agreements and other restrictive covenants are customarily found in employment agreements and provided for in the sale of a business.
In the employment context, companies simply do not want a former employee to take its business and set up shop or to go work for a competitor. In connection with the sale of a
It may sound odd for a noncompete attorney to say this, but when it comes to enforcing a non-compete restriction, the applicable law is often less important than the context in which the noncompete restriction arises.
To better understand this point, consider that noncompete restrictions, sometimes referred to as covenants not to compete, often arise
Business owners had a lot to cry about when it came to 2012 Michigan court decisions addressing noncompete agreements.
But, as discussed below, a lot of this frustration arose out of poorly drafted noncompete agreements and failing to fully evaluate the relevant circumstances involving changing employment relationships before reducing those changes to written employment agreements.
The storm that has devastated the U.S. east coast has been dubbed “Frankenstorm” because of the devastating effect of a number of separate natural conditions coming together to create a monstrous “super storm.”
While with less devastation and real-life danger, employers often experience their own employment storms as a result of stitching together various
A fantastic, but often overlooked movie is True Romance. The movie stars Christian Slater whose character, Clarence Worley, delivers the following line:
If there’s one thing this last week has taught me, it’s better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
This line should also