Posted on July 29, 2016
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Generally, Texas allows non-compete agreements between employers and employees as long as they are reasonable in scope, geographic area, and term, and meet a few other requirements. See my previous posts about those requirements here, here, and here. Practically speaking, however, whether a particular non-compete agreement…
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Last week, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals issued a ruling in a case involving a non-compete agreement between a legal services company in Texas and its former marketing director. While the facts and arguments made by the parties were pretty ordinary, the Court’s opinion…
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Posted on December 1, 2013
by Leiza Dolghih
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In Texas, non-compete agreements that relate to the practice of medicine must meet certain statutory requirements in addition to the consideration and reasonableness conditions discussed here. Last week, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in LasikPlus of Texas, P.C., et al. v. Mattioli denied a lasic clinic’s application for a…
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Posted on October 31, 2013
by Leiza Dolghih
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Texas courts have the authority to rewrite non-compete agreements that they find to be unreasonable. Thus, a business might be tempted to draft a broad non-compete agreement thinking that when a push comes to shove, it can just ask the court to reform the…
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Posted on October 18, 2013
by Leiza Dolghih
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If you have followed the steps in Part I, you might now be in possession of evidence confirming that your ex-employee is violating his or her non-compete agreement. Such evidence will do you no good, however, if the non-compete agreement that you are relying…
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Posted on August 21, 2013
by Leiza Dolghih
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You have just learned that one of your former employees might be violating the terms of his non-compete agreement with your company. What should you do? Should you call him and ask him to stop? Should your general counsel send him a letter threatening…
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