Our 50-State (plus DC) chart of noncompete laws has been updated for Oregon’s recent amendment. It is available here.
If you’ve been following along, you know that there have been 65 noncompete bills in 25 states so far this year1 — excluding the two pending federal noncompete bills, D.C.’s new law to ban mo...
45 state bills to modify noncompete law are pending across 21 states. In this series, we cover all 45 bills (and any new ones that are filed) — and will be simultaneously updating our Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompete Laws page. Today’s installment is about Georgia’s bill.
About twice a year, I update my chart of reported noncompete and trade secrets decisions. As regular readers of this blog know, a little over a decade ago, I became curious to see how many reported trade secret and noncompete decisions were issued each year in all of the federal and state courts around the country. So, I did a “back of the envelope” calculation. I have performed similar calculations every year since. Here is the latest.
Based on a review of recent noncompete decisions and laws from around the country, I have updated our chart, “Employee Noncompetes - A State-by-State Survey.”
Given the recent changes to Indiana law and Virginia law, both of which take effect on July 1, I have again updated my 50 State Noncompete Chart. The chart is now current through June 27, 2020. A...
About twice a year, I update my chart of reported noncompete and trade secrets decisions. Here is the latest. As regular readers of this blog know, several years ago, I became curious to see how m...
Ask two lawyers for their opinion, and you’ll get three opinions. But I asked 21 lawyers and a paralegal and got only one opinion. That opinion that is set out in a letter we collectively submitte...
I have updated my 50 State Noncompete Chart to add statutory references for the recent developments. Click here to get the latest version of the 50 State Noncompete Chart. (The chart is current...
New year, new laws, new issues: First, at the state level... A number of states have modified their noncompete laws last year: Florida: banned noncompetes for specialist physicians in certain...
*This post was originally published by Erika Hahn and me on Law360 under the title, “Noncompete Misconceptions May Be Inhibiting Reform.” Federalism is alive and well. For about 200 ye...
Having recently completed my second roundup of new noncompete legislation, I have updated my 50 State Noncompete Chart to reflect the changes since the April update. (See Legislative Update: Recent...
Having just completed my most-recent review of every state's pending and recently enacted noncompete legislation, I have updated the BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart today (April 27, 2019) to reflect ...
In preparation for the start of my class (I teach Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants at my old law school, Boston University School of Law), I re-ran my chart of reported noncomepte and trade sec...
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated today to reflect a new laws in Idaho, Massachusetts, and Utah (and a few additional tweaks in other states). (See "Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompe...
Today, the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a hearing on the 8 bills involving noncompetes or trade secrets currently pending at the State House. As many of you w...
It turns out that I missed a few bills! New York: Two identical bills (one in the Assembly (A 6419) and one in the Senate (S 4688)) to adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; and one (S 1204) that...
Noncompete agreements have for about a decade been the focus of legislative efforts around the country. Some states seek to strengthen enforcement of them, while others seek to scale them back or elim...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update. There's a lot to catch up on (sorry!) … Remember that the Changing Trade Secrets | Noncompete...
As of Thursday, August 6, Arkansas noncompete law was statutorily modified by the addition of Ark. Code 4-70-207. With all of the talk about states (like New Hampshire, Hawaii, Massachusetts,...
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated today (December 7, 2010) to reflect a clarification of Wisconsin’s rule on dealing with overly broad noncompete agreements. Click here to get the l...