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This respected and authoritative two-volume treatise gives you the critical information you need to analyze, draft, and litigate with confidence all covenants not to compete and other restrictive covenants in the employment, partnership, franchise, and sale-of-business contexts. Covenants Not to Compete: A State-by-State Survey, Fourth Edition provides an in-depth examination of the full range of covenant enforceability issues across the nation. Covenants Not to Compete: A State-by-State Survey, Fourth Edition includes a complete catalog of the temporal, geographic, and activity restrictions that have been successfully imposed—and successfully challenged—under both the governing state statutes and the common law. This invaluable resource also thoroughly addresses, by state, the types of interests that can be legitimately protected by a restrictive covenant; the types of consideration needed to support such an agreement (whether executed at the beginning of—or during—the employment relationship); the tests of enforceability; judicial approaches to modifying overbroad covenants; the availability of injunctive relief and damages; the effect of liquidated damages clauses on requests for injunctive relief; and the numerous defenses available. This edition examines and explains a number of court decisions resolving several questions of first impression, such as: the covenant-protectability under Indiana law of the image or persona of an employee developed, promoted, and advertised by the employer; the enforceability of fee-for-competition clauses under Kansas law; covenant assignability under Pennsylvania law where the employer retains a financial interest in a business sold to a successor employer; the enforceability under Texas law of a forum selection clause where the enforceability of a covenant is at issue; and the proper test of enforceability for franchise-context noncompetition covenants governed by Wisconsin law, and more. Covenants Not to Compete: A State-by-State Survey, Fourth Edition also expands the number of topics addressed in the treatise, discussing for the first time: Board of Accountancy Code of Professional Conduct; Context Characterization: Lease Context Versus Sale of Business Context; Courts, Specialized Business; Personally Binding or Not; Removal/Joinder of Defendants; and Ripeness for Review.

This respected and authoritative three-volume treatise delivers the information practitioners need to analyze, draft, and confidently litigate covenants not to compete and other restrictive covenants in the employment, partnership, franchise, license, and sale-of-business contexts. Courts all across the United States have resolved a number of questions of first impression that have a substantial and direct bearing on the enforceability of covenants not to compete in the nation today. Covenants Not to Compete: A State-by-State Survey discusses these decisions and identifies issues with significant splits of authority across the states, including whether the mere leasing of property to a competitor violates the terms of a noncompete clause where the clause fails to include language specifically prohibiting such action. Additional Topics at the end of relevant chapters address hundreds of make-or-break issues, including: Context characterization: service agreement versus employment context Effect of dissolution of employer Grace periods to cure breach not presumed Effect of entering into covenant in individual capacity This treatise also addresses questions of first impression concerning new state statutes that limit the enforceability of covenants not to compete executed by employees in the broadcasting industries, and contains expanded analysis of covenant-protectable interests in both actual and potential customer relationships. Other topics discussed in detail include effect of abandonment of a particular line of business, as well as the effect of abandonment of customers; judicial modifiability, restrictions involving physicians and other health care professionals; and much more. The new Eighth Edition is an indispensable reference providing insight and guidance on covenant enforceability. Important updates include expanded discussions of: The temporal and geographic limits of enforceable covenants not to compete Assignability of noncompetition covenants Consideration required to support a covenant executed well after the commencement of employment Protectable interests Remedies available for covenant breach, including injunctive relief and damages.

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Product Description: The all-new 2011 Supplement includes: Expanded discussion of restrictions involving physicians and other health care professionals Expanded discussion of judicial modifiability Expanded discussion of enforceable time, geographic, and activity limits This treatise also identifies and discusses issues with significant splits of authority across the states, including whether the mere leasing of property to a competitor violates the terms of a noncompete clause where the clause fails to include language specifically prohibiting such action...read more

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