Preparing for the Cease and Desist Letter at Your New Job

Avoid problems when you receive a cease and desist letter at your new job.

A new training video is now available!

Last year, we kicked off the official launch of our Ten Minute Trade Secret Training^TM series of videos with three trainings: One covering steps for employees to take (and to avoid) when leaving a job; the second, covering steps for employees to take (and to avoid) when on-boarding at a new job; and the third covering steps for companies and employees to take to protect trade secrets when employees are working remotely.

Our newest training is The Entrance Plan: Preparing for the Cease and Desist Letter at Your New Job.

This new training covers what employees should do — and avoid doing — when they receive, or anticipate receiving, a cease and desist letter from their prior employer.

We hope these videos help you to avoid the avoidable problems when changing jobs or working remotely.

Good luck!

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Firm resources: 

We know how hard it is to keep up with the ever-changing laws and requirements around the country for how you can protect company’s trade secrets, customer goodwill, and the integrity of your workforce. To help, we have created the following resources (available for free):

• 50-State Noncompete Law Chart, the first of its kind and regularly updated (downloadable PDF) (to be updated for the new exemptions in Illinois and Pennsylvania);
• Chart of Noncompete “Low-Wage” Thresholds and Criteria (downloadable);
• Notice requirements summary chart, providing details for each of the 8 states (plus D.C.) that has notice requirements related to noncompetes (downloadable PDF);
• 50-State and Federal Trade Secret Law Chart, providing a comparison of the trade secrets laws nationally to the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (downloadable PDF).
• “Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompete Laws” (dedicated blog page) now provides a current detailed summary of the changing landscape of trade secret laws and noncompete laws around the country, state by state and at the federal level;
• Trade secret and other legitimate business interest protection plan strategy and checklist; and
• Ten Minute Trade Secret Training Series, now with four training videos and one “basics” video:
  • The Exit Plan: Being a Good Leaver;
  • The Entrance Plan: Preparing for the Cease and Desist Letter at Your New Job;
  • Avoiding Mistakes When Starting A New Job;
  • Protecting Trade Secrets While Working Remotely; and
  • Fair Competition Law Basics – What is a Trade Secret?

We hope you find all of these resources useful. More will be coming.

And please note, we are grateful for all of the input we’ve received over the years. We welcome any suggestions for improvements that you may be willing to share.

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*A huge thank you to Erika Hahn for all of her extraordinary help in tracking and monitoring all of the recent noncompete and trade secret caselaw developments.