Yearly Archives: 2010

You are planning to terminate an employee or you have an employee who is in the process of resigning - or has already resigned. The employee is not subject to a noncompete, or maybe there is some ques...
Lawsuits over trade secrets typically involve things like customer lists, formulas, manufacturing processes, etc. Can the location of houses for use as movie sets be a trade secret? Yep. Well, at leas...
Are noncompetes legal? YES!! (I'm asked that question way too often.) Of course, the answer needs clarification. There are limits on the use of noncompetes. In addition to the standard requirements...
You followed the rules. You did as you were told.  You didn’t take any documents from your former employer when you left your job. Excellent! But, what about your former employer’s trade secre...
We're now fully operational here and at Beck Reed Riden LLP! With that, we are able to bring all of the basic services to full capacity.  Toward that end, I have updated the links on the right sid...
The explosion of the importance of trade secrets is at this point old news.  The new news, however, is the rise of use of noncompetes and other restrictive covenants (for example, nondisclosure agree...