» Non-Compete Agreements

On May 25, 2019, Maryland enacted Senate Bill 328, “Labor & Employment – Non-compete and Conflict of Interest Clauses”. The bill essentially prohibits employers from entering into non-compete agreements with employees earning equal to or le… Read More

In Allied Fire Prot., Inc. v. Thai, No. PWG-17-551, 2017 WL 4354802, at *1 (D. Md. Oct. 2, 2017), the plaintiff employer filed suit against its former employee in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, alleging four causes of action: (I)… Read More

United States Magistrate Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher recently granted an FLSA Plaintiff employee’s Motion to Dismiss Counterclaims filed by his Defendant employer. Detailed excerpts from the Opinion are presented below. Most importantly, the C… Read More

The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 creates a federal cause of action for trade secret misappropriation. The Act became law on May 11, 2016. This law presents an additional recourse for Maryland trade secret owners who already may bring an action un… Read More

Most Maryland employers wisely utilize non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. Many of these agreements also contain provisions that protect a company’s confidential information, called a confidentiality clause or confidentiality provision. Fe… Read More

The Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine may at first sound like an indecipherable philosophical legalese run-on sentence. Therefore, we present to you the following close-to-home-hypothetical situation (any resemblance to actual people or events is entire… Read More

Covenants not to compete (often referred to simply as “noncompetes”) have become ubiquitous in employment agreements, particularly for executives and other mid- to high-ranking individuals. The long standing status quo regarding non-competes in t… Read More

Most Maryland companies that utilize salespeople to conduct their business are familiar with “Non-Compete Agreements.” These are the agreements that prevent an employee from leaving the company and taking all of the company’s customers with the… Read More