New California Laws SB 699 and AB 1076 Further Bolster Ban on Non-Competes
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New California Laws SB 699 and AB 1076 Further Bolster Ban on Non-Competes

ByKelli Nishimori

California’s public policy provides that agreements that restrain workers from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business is void, except under narrow statutory exceptions. The Legislature has established that California benefits significantly from this policy, “fueling competition, entrepreneurship, innovation, job and wage growth, equality, and economic development.” Still, some employers continue to utilize broad…

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

ByBlayne Kercher

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…

managers discuss hiring strategies
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Has the Department of Justice Changed the Way Companies Protect Talent?

ByBlayne Kercher

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…