A Texas appellate court recently held that a provision conditioning a physician’s right to receive 50% of accounts receivable on practicing outside a 20-mile radius was not a covenant not to compete. Afzal v. Ramineni offers an important lesson for Texas physicians about the difference between a true non-compete and compensation that can be forfeited when a physician competes.
Employees who receive a cease-and-desist letter or lawsuit from a former employer over a non-compete agreement often assume that because they signed the agreement, they
When people think of non-compete agreements in Texas, they usually picture contracts that say “you can’t work for a competitor.” But employers often use something
With all this talk about how the federal government is about to ban non-compete agreements, many might think they no longer need to worry about
A cease-and-desist letter typically demands that an employee or a business stop doing something. The letter often threatens a legal action if the recipient does
Many non-compete agreements in Texas often include employee non-solicitation restraints, which prohibit departing employees from soliciting their co-workers to leave with them. Whereas non-competition restraints
