Covenants Not to Compete: Controlling the Movement of Employees and Information
Why Attend?
The program will provide cutting-edge and practical advice for attorneys, human resource professionals and employees on working and practicing with a mobile workforce and competitive world. The series Planning Chairs/Moderators also provide a summary of recent employment law developments in the final 30 minutes, including any regulatory developments and groundbreaking opinions. As an interactive seminar, the program affords the opportunity to submit questions for faculty discussion in advance of and during the event.
Among the issues that will be addressed during this 2 hour program:
• Preparing enforceable confidentiality agreements and restrictive covenants (i.e., non-competition, non-solicitation, non-disclosure and anti-raiding agreements).
• Creating policies for information ownership, protection and retention (i.e., policies that protect trade secrets and other confidential information, and address electronic information requirements and related issues).
• Minimization of risk when recruiting individuals or groups of employees.
• The need to quickly investigate and respond to situations involving misappropriation or misuse of proprietary information or other types of unfair competition.
• Pursuing and defending litigation involving restrictive covenants, trade secrets, employee raiding, breach of duty of loyalty, breach of contract, unfair competition, and violation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
What You Will Learn
In today’s competitive global marketplace, critical to the success of your business is the ability to protect and retain human resources, intellectual property, trade secrets, proprietary information, and client relationships. Unfortunately, employee mobility and disloyalty have become more commonplace than ever before. Advances in technology have made it easy for employees to obtain and misappropriate their employer’s confidential information and trade secrets, whether to compete with the employer in a new business or on behalf of a competitor. It is vital for employers to have policies, procedures and agreements in place that limit an employee’s ability to do so, as well as a working knowledge of information technology to monitor and preserve trade secrets and confidential information.
Planning Chairs
Robert B. Fitzpatrick, Robert B. Fitzpatrick, PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Frank C. Morris, Jr., Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C., Washington, D.C.
Faculty
Peter L. Altieri, Esquire, Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C., New York, New York
additional faculty may be added
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 2.0; Total 50-minute hours: 2.4
Suggested Prerequisite: Limited experience in legal practice in subject matter.
Educational Objective: Development of proficiency in performance of intricate and complex legal tasks within a narrow area, provision of information on recent legal developments; maintenance of professional competence as a practitioner.
Level of Instruction: Intermediate
Times
Time Zone Information
Eastern 12 noon - 2 p.m.
Central 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Mountain 10 a.m. – 12 noon
Pacific 9 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Alaska 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Hawaii 7 a.m. – 9 a.m.
