New England Biz Law Update

The Great Resignation is coming. Unprecedented numbers of employees are expected to change jobs, and more than half of them will take confidential company information. Worse, 40 percent of them will use that information at their new job. Companies frequently ...

After five years in the making, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, amending the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 to create an entirely new federal private right of action for trade secrets misappropriation, was signed into law in the ...

According to a recent study, more than half of all employees admit to stealing employers’ confidential data.

Tagged with: May 31 2012 issue

You’ve been at your current in-house position for some time. When you took the job, or perhaps sometime during your employment, you were required to sign a variety of restrictive covenants that included at least one of the following: a ...

Tagged with: Feb. 29 2012 issue

Another article about alternative fee arrangements? Actually, no.

Tagged with: Sept. 2011 issue

Love them or hate them, non-competes are a fact of business in all states but California, Oklahoma and North Dakota. Whether your employee left and you need to enforce a non-compete, or you are hiring an employee subject to a ...

Tagged with: July 2011 issue

For the second time, Massachusetts lawmakers have taken up the question of whether to overhaul existing non-compete laws that allow employers to prevent former employees from working against them after their employment ends.

Tagged with: March 2011 issue non-compete agreement

Trade secret law, which some say harkens back to Roman times, emerged in the United States in its modern form almost 200 years ago. See Vickery v. Welch, 36 Mass. 523 (1837).

Tagged with: Jan. 2011 issue