Now on Spilling Secrets and techniques, our podcast sequence on the way forward for non-compete and commerce secrets and techniques regulation:

Two and a half years into the pandemic, it seems that distant work is right here to remain, to various levels, in just about all industries. How do restrictive covenants work on this distant work period? On this Spilling Secrets and techniques episode, hear how employers are addressing restrictive covenant considerations now that staff could also be situated anyplace.

Our all-star panel of attorneys – Pete Steinmeyer, Kate Rigby, Millie Warner, and Erik Weibust – talk about extra.

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As our antitrust colleagues defined not too long ago, on August 26, 2022, the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) revealed its “Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2022–2026,” as required underneath the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010. Readers of this weblog can be focused on two small, however vital, gadgets within the Strategic Plan associated to noncompete agreements.

First, underneath “Goal 2.1: Determine, examine, and take actions towards anticompetitive mergers and enterprise practices,” the FTC opinions that “[a]anticompetitive mergers and enterprise practices hurt Individuals by means of increased costs, decrease wages, or diminished high quality, selection, and innovation. Enforcement of antitrust legal …

Now on Spilling Secrets and techniques, our podcast sequence on the way forward for non-compete and commerce secrets and techniques regulation:

An employer usually overlooks coaching staff on what their restrictive covenants imply and the way to honor their confidentiality, non-competition, and non-solicitation obligations. However this sort of coaching may be vital for employers in defending commerce secrets and techniques and avoiding litigation sooner or later.

Our all-star panel of attorneys – Pete Steinmeyer, Kate Rigby, Millie Warner, and Erik Weibust – talk about extra.

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“The regulation is just not a sport, and . . . civil discovery is just not a sport of disguise and search. The choice on this case ought to encourage litigants to know that it’s dangerous enterprise to recklessly or intentionally fail to supply paperwork, and threatening to disobey court docket orders to evaluate and, if needed, complement prior productions. It’s within the pursuits of the administration of justice to default [defendants] to ship these messages.”

So stated United States District Choose Mark L. Wolf in a 72-page choice during which he entered a default judgment as a sanction in …