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Seyfarth lawyers have updated the annual Illinois Corporate Practice and Forms: The Seyfarth Shaw Manual.

New York may become the latest state to ban non-compete agreements after the New York State Assembly and Senate each passed legislation seeking to curtail their use by employers.

On May 31, 2024, the Governor of Colorado signed House Bill 24-1324, titled "Attorney General Restrictive Employment Agreements," putting into place a law to toughen protections for employees...

The Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently granted immunity under the whistleblower provision of the Defend Trade Secret Act in what appears to be the first decision of its kind under the new federal trade secret statute.

Like other aspects of the Obama administration's labor agenda, this initiative may be in peril.

The prospects for federal trade secret legislation has heated up again as there appears to be bipartisan support for a new bill.

Every medical practice or company, regardless of size, has sensitive information and valuable customer and employee relationships.

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") voted 3-2 to issue a Final Rule ("Rule") that would have generally banned employers from entering into non-competes with workers and would have required employers...

In April of 2010, the Texas Supreme Court agreed to review an appellate court decision that will require the Court to answer the following question: Can money serve as consideration for a non-compete?

On October 12, 2023, the Wisconsin legislature introduced Assembly Bill 481, which proposes the ban of employee non-compete agreements in the Badger State. Currently, employee non-compete agreements...

Member Brad Scheller spoke with IAM discussing how a recent trade secret dispute has led to a Texas judge's decision that, under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA),

Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) have introduced legislation entitled the Workforce Mobility Act ("WMA").

This case reminds us that civil courts are not the exclusive forum to prosecute a trade secrets theft.

President Obama signed into law yesterday the Defend Trade Secrets Act, establishing for the first time an ostensibly uniform national trade secret protection standard.

In June, agriculture giant Monsanto was the first to use the DTSA by filing a federal suit in the Eastern District of Missouri naming one former employee and a number of John and Jane Does as defendants.

In a decision of first impression issued last week, the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee held, in Gus's Franchisor, LLC v. Terrapin Restaurant Partners, LLC.

A recent action by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors demonstrates the increased risk that banking officials face in trade secret misappropriation cases.

This past Spring, we reported on the recently enacted Defend Trade Secrets Act, which provides a new federal civil cause of action to trade secret owners seeking to pursue claims...