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Extract from article by Peter L. Alteiri
In a very thorough analysis following a 3 day Preliminary Injunction hearing Judge Jed Rakoff declined to issue injunctive relief to a former employer seeking to enjoin four former employees and their new employer from competing or from soliciting clients or employees. The decision is far ranging in the employee movement context touching upon inadvertent retention of confidential information, the propriety of new employers providing broad indemnifications and large signing bonuses to the recruits, and the scope of allowable “preparatory conduct” in a one year non-compete period, among other issues presented in the context of a group of employees in the eDiscovery services space collectively on the move.
July 5, 2017, Opinion from Judge Jed S. Rakoff
Opinion (Jed S. Rakoff, U.S.D.J.) July 5, 2017)Read the complete article at New York Federal Judge Declines to Enforce Employee Non-Solicit Clause
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