Employer illegally seized former employee's LinkedIn account, but employee suffered no provable damages *

USA - April 23 2013
Social media has changed the way that companies and employees connect to clients and customers. As new uses for social networking emerge, legal…

Co-authors: Peter A. Steinmeyer.

Texas appellate court finds that yearly employment contract not signed by employer is unenforceable *

USA - September 27 2012
Amidst the hustle and bustle of running a business or earning a living, paperwork formalities sometimes get pushed to the side, and non-competes don’t get signed, or don’t get signed until after the employee has already started work (thereby creating issues of consideration and enforceability).

Georgia Court of Appeals finds circumstantial evidence of trade secret misappropriation insufficient to overcome a former employee's denials *

USA - August 7 2012
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently ruled that a company failed to present sufficient evidence that its former employee had misappropriated its trade secrets, where the former employee's denials conflicted with circumstantial evidence of misconduct.

Illinois Appellate Court holds that only material breaches justify nonperformance of restrictive covenants *

USA - July 11 2012
Addressing an argument frequently encountered in restrictive covenant litigation, an Illinois Appellate Court recently reiterated that only a material breach of a contract containing a restrictive covenant will relieve the other party of its contractual obligation to abide by the restrictive covenant.