Shutting Down the CompetitionWithin a just a few days of learning our client’s former employee was using proprietary and confidential information to steal away customers, we filed a complaint and headed into court seeking a temporary restraining order. The court granted the motion and ordered the former employee to cease using our client’s information to market her services to our client’s customers. At the preliminary injunction hearing, because the non-competition clause in the former employee’s contract was impermissibly broad we narrowed our request to what could legally be restrained and received the relief we sought. After her deposition, the former employee entered into a settlement agreement that replicated the permissible restrictions in her employment agreement and confessed to a judgment in favor of …
Taking Care of BusinessA Fortune 500 company sued our clients, a highly successful officer of the company and his team, and the national company they moved to, for breach of contract, violation of non-competition and non-solicitation contract provisions, misappropriation of trade secrets and proprietary information and other claims and sought $22 million in damages. We and our co-counsel recognized that these parties needed to settle this case in short order for the transferred book of business to be properly serviced. Before we filed an answer, within three months of the complaint being filed, the parties began negotiating a settlement on terms reasonable for all the parties, that was inked six weeks later. This was a case where getting back to business was far …
