The Indemnification Simplification
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The Indemnification Simplification

Indemnity provisions can be complex. For every two-sentence indemnity, there’s an indemnity section filling up a page and a half (and hilariously, the long indemnity may only be four sentences). Indemnities are one of the most quintessential “legal” provisions you’ll come across. So, in what could be a multi-part series, let’s try to simplify indemnities…

Protection of Trade Secrets Starts Before the Lawsuit
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Protection of Trade Secrets Starts Before the Lawsuit

Employees leave businesses for competitors. It happens all the time. Employees also take with them important information from their previous employer. It happens more often than you would think. A recent case illustrates how one employer’s failure to protect its own information in any meaningful way affected, and may have even lost, its rights to…

Has the Department of Justice Changed the Way Companies Protect Talent?
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Has the Department of Justice Changed the Way Companies Protect Talent?

If you were to quantify all the searching, interviewing, and negotiating with potential employees, and the efforts to train and assist them to ensure their success, it would be clear that companies spend a lot of money to employ top talent. Protecting key talent from leaving your employ is, therefore, serious business. One tactic for…