Six months ago, in July 2025, we published a blog post providing a brief history of noncompete agreements in the United States; describing the current status of federal restrictions on noncompetes; ...

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In the wake of the Federal Trade Commission’s recently failed attempt to ban non-compete agreements between employers and workers,[1] individual states have once again taken up the mantle of further ...

Paula McDonald receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Commonwealth Department of Treasury. Andrew Stewart receives funding from Commonwealth Department of Treasury. Australian ...

It has been a busy year for the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) enforcement efforts against non-compete restrictive covenants in employment agreements. During President Biden’s administration in ...

Florida recently passed a new bill on a hotly debated legal issue: non-compete bans. Several states, including California, North Dakota, and Wisconsin, currently have outright bans against these ...

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The Federal Trade Commission has officially ended its effort to enact a nationwide ban on non-compete agreements, marking the death of one of the Biden administration’s most ambitious labor ...

Non-competes are bad for the American economy. Ohio has an opportunity to help lead the way to fix the problem. As the founder and CEO of Veeva, a cloud software company made possible by California’s ...

Understand how this legal document protects sensitive information such as trade secrets, proprietary processes, client lists, business practices, and other intellectual property. What Is a Non-Compete ...