2021 was an active year for trade secret and restrictive covenant law. 28 states introduced a total of 68 restrictive covenant bills, the United States Senate re-examined two prior restrictive ...

Addressing the enforceability of a non-compete agreement to protect trade secrets, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a ruling finding that a non-compete agreement which prevented ...

Trade secrets are only valuable as long as they are in fact secrets. All too often employers fail to protect their proprietary information. Fortunately the doctrine of inevitable disclosure allows ...

“Noncompete covenants are the most controversial of restrictive covenants, but also the most effective at preventing unfair use of trade secrets if they’re enforceable (and that’s a big ‘if’ in some ...

An organization facing pending or anticipated trade secret or restrictive covenant litigation against a former employee must properly manage various e-discovery issues, including where to locate and ...

An employee of Covenant Transport reportedly has been charged with stealing trade secrets from the trucking firm. According to the Chattanoogan website, authorities said they found a folder with ...

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