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Author Archives: Russell Beck and Erika Hahn

Protecting trade secrets during, after stay-at-home orders

The ability to protect trade secrets (and other legitimate business interests, including customer goodwill) has been hit by a perfect storm caused by the current coronavirus pandemic: Loss of control. With much of the workforce working from home for the ...

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Consideration happens, but not during garden leave

The 2018 Massachusetts noncompete law made many significant improvements to preexisting law, but garden leave is not one of them. We wrote an article in the November issue of NEIH titled “The new noncompete law: compromise happens.” In it, we ...

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Massachusetts’ new noncompete law: compromise happens

It’s just over a year since the “new” Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act took effect, and it already has had some very tangible, positive effects. However, one aspect of the new law — namely, what consideration is required to support a ...

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