The Business Litigation Session (the “BLS”) of the Massachusetts Superior Court just issued a decision on the scope of preemption under Massachusetts “new” (effective October 1, 2018) trade secret law, the Massachusetts Uniform Trade Secrets Act (sometimes referred to as “MUTSA,” and other times as “MTSA”). See what it says.

Recent cases suggest that courts are not reflexively responding to the impacts of COVID-19 by denying preliminary injunctive relief. They continue to evaluate the need for injunctive relief as before, and are simply adding the impacts of the pandemic into the mix as appropriate.

This seems to be the month for unicorns. In the past 30 days, we have had three. First, there was the trademark case – literally about unicorns. Then, the First Circuit gave us rare insight i...

*This post was originally published by Erika Hahn and me on Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly under the title, “Consideration happens, but not during garden leave.” The 2018 Massachusetts noncompet...