On August 19, Illinois Governor Rauner signed the Illinois Freedom to Work Act. In short, the Act bans the use of noncompete agreements for low wage workers, i.e., those earning less than the greate...
To the surprise of many, the efforts of the Conference Committee to reconcile the House and Senate versions of Massachusetts' noncompete bill (and bill proposing the adoption of the Uniform Trade Sec...
As of last night, Massachusetts has two competing versions of noncompete and trade secrets law reform bills. The House version (H.4434) is described here, and the Senate version (S.2418) (which d...
The Massachusetts Senate voted tonight on Massachusetts trade secrets law and noncompete law reform. Senators proposed multiple amendments to the version of the bill that Senator Mark Montigny, ...
The enormous efforts at the State House to reform Massachusetts noncompete law continue. Today, Senator Mark Montigny, on behalf of the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Rules, recommended a revise...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … (My apologies to those who received an email update with a draft of this post.) Also, no...
Although I am away (and posting from the Muir Woods - which are quite remarkable), I wanted to post a quick update on the status of the Massachusetts noncompete and UTSA bill. More details later. In t...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … Federal: The Defend Trade Secrets Act is now law of the land. The United States now (offic...
The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) is now law of the land, and the United States now (officially) has a national trade secrets law with a concomitant private civil right of action. Specifically,...
I posted yesterday that President Obama had signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act, including a lengthy summary of the bill, it's history, what it does, and what (I think) it will mean for companies....
After 5 years in the making, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (the "DTSA") was signed into law today by President Obama (following a unanimous vote by the Senate (87-0) and nearly unanimous vote...
This is a very quick post, with details to follow tomorrow. We've all been waiting for it, and it's happening tomorrow: President Obama is scheduled to sign the Defend Trade Secrets Act (aka the...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … Federal: The president has until Saturday to sign or veto the DTSA. "[D]escribed as the '...
With trade secret theft growing and showing no sign of stopping, it's no surprise that there has been bipartisan support for Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) - the act that amends the Economic...
Updated on 4/20/2016 at 10:48 AM EDT; updated again on 4/26/2016 at 8:25 EDT: As you will recall, on April 4, the Senate voted unanimously to approve the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (commo...
Updated (updates in italic) On March 22, 2016, the Idaho Senate voted 22-13 to pass a bill (H487) to modify Idaho noncompete law. (This follows the March 14 vote by the House to pass the bil...
The BRR 50 State Noncompete Chart has been updated to reflect a recent update in Utah law (which will take effect on May 10, 2016). Click here to get the latest version. Please note that the...
On March 22, 2016, Utah passed the Post-Employment Restrictions Act. Under the Act, all new noncompete agreements executed on or after May 10, 2016, are restricted to one year; any agreement...
Below is a short supplement to March's update on issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news. The developments are as follows… Federal: The Senate vote on the Defend Trade Secret...
On March 10, in R.J. O'Brien & Assoc., LLC v. Williamson, another United States District Court judge in Illinois (Judge Robert Gettleman) weighed in on the controversial Fifield v. Premier D...
On March 10 (the last day to do so), the Utah legislature passed the Senate's amended version of the noncompete reform bill. For details about the bill, see Utah Noncompete Reform: Only Today Left....
With less than a day left, we're down to the wire on Utah's consideration of noncompete reform this session. Yesterday, March 9, the Utah Senate made some amendments (see below) to the version fr...
On March 8, as expected, the Utah Senate took up the noncompete bill. However, rather than approve a ban on employee noncompetes (as approved by the House), the Utah Senate approved a bill t...
Below are the latest issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news since our last update … Georgia: In February, the Georgia State Senate focused on the intersection between publics r...