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Handcuffs & Secrets: The Law of Employee Mobility in a Changing Economy

1h

Created on June 21, 2016

Intermediate

Overview

The law and policy governing noncompetes and trade secrets in the workplace is changing. With a new federal trade secrets statute, pending statutory changes in numerous states and high-level policy interest in the impact of noncompetes on the workforce and innovation, old assumptions are facing new challenges. As technology uproots old economic structures and the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, practitioners face new challenges in advising and litigating for clients in this evolving legal environment.

This course offers both a refresher in the basic principles of law governing trade secrets and restrictive covenants and a re-examination of those principles in light of evolving legal and workforce trends. For experienced practitioners and those first encountering the issues of how to protect intellectual and human resources in a mobile employment market, this course goes beyond the black letter law to look at the purpose and function that the law of trade secrets and noncompetes play in the regulation of workforce mobility.


Learning Objectives: 
  1. Outline the law governing noncompetes and trade secrets in the workplace
  2. Focus on the purpose and function that the law of noncompetes and trade secrets plays in our economy
  3. Understand the reasons for the new policy attention to these issues at the federal and state levels
  4. Revisit how to advise clients and litigate cases in this changing legal and policy environment

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