Q: What types of damages are available when a former employee breaches a restrictive covenant barring solicitation of his or her former employer’s customers?

A: While parties often focus on the possibility to enjoin a former employee from soliciting a company’s customers, it is possible to recoup lost profits as well, particularly where they are significant. For example, a Massachusetts federal court found a sales representative liable for over $1.6 million in damages for breaching a nonsolicitation clause that prohibited him from procuring business from his former employer’s customers.Continue Reading Court Awards Employer Over $1 Million for Former Employee’s Breach of Nonsolicitation Clause

Q.  Can two business entities agree not to hire each other’s employees?

A.  On January 11, an en banc panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a trial court’s decision declaring that a no-hire provision in a commercial contract between two businesses was void and unenforceable under Pennsylvania law. Over the past 18 months,