Tuesday, January 24, 2023
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In the second installment of the 2023 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, Seyfarth attorneys will review the noteworthy legislation, cases, and legal developments from across the nation over the last year in the areas of trade secrets and data theft, non-competes and other restrictive covenants , and computer fraud. Plus, they will provide predictions for what to expect in 2023.

Seyfarth attorneys, Michael Wexler, Robert Milligan, and Joshua Salinas will address

In the first installment of our 2023 Trade Secrets & Non-Competes Webinar Series, Seyfarth partners Kate Perrelli, Michael Wexler, Robert Milligan, Dan Hart, and Dawn Mertineit discussed the new Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) proposed rule banning the use of non-competes with employees and workers. The expert panel addressed what the proposed rule would do and what employers need to know to respond.

As a conclusion to this webinar, we compiled a summary of takeaways:

• The FTC’s attempted regulation of employment non-competes as part of its rulemaking powers is unprecedented in the 109 years since its creation in 1914. The FTC

As our colleagues have previously reported in this blog, on January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) concerning its unprecedented effort to ban all non-compete clauses with workers and to preempt state law on the issue . The NPRM followed just one day after the FTC announced that it had reached a consent settlement with three companies for alleged unfair trade practices by imposing overly burdensome non-compete agreements.

Not surprisingly, the NPRM has sparked a surge of commentary in the legal and business communities and immediately courted controversy. The sole Republican member of

CLEVELAND, Ohio — An attorney at a prominent Cleveland employment law firm came under harsh criticism Tuesday after a social media post showed an insulting text message he sent to a former female colleague who had left the firm after returning from maternity leave.

Jon Dileno, a senior attorney at Zashin & Rich, confirmed to cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer that he sent the message that went viral after another attorney posted a screenshot of the message on LinkedIn. By the end of Tuesday, Dileno was no longer working for the firm.

The social media post, which did not name