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Panel of Global Employment Lawyers Agrees on One Thing: U.S. Noncompete Laws Create Unique Challenges

The state-by-state patchwork of noncompete laws is difficult enough for U.S.-based businesses, let alone employers with a cross-border presence. I had the pleasure of exploring this topic with a panel of U.S. and UK-based employment lawyers as part to the … Continue reading

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Forced Out and Bound by a Non-Compete

As a lawyer representing executives in non-compete disputes, I have always found covenants not to compete to be, to put it mildly, troublesome. To have such a patently anti-competitive tool in a free market system flies in the face of … Continue reading

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