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Stark & Stark Shareholder to Present at NJICLE Non-Compete Seminar

Thomas B. Lewis, Chair of Stark & Stark's Employment group, will serve as a speaker at the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education's seminar entitled, Current Issues Involving Non-Compete Agreements, Protection of Trade Secrets and the Duty of Loyalty. The seminar will be held October 1, 2009 at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey from 4:30 - 8:00 PM.

The seminar will address the benefits provided by non-compete agreements. The seminar will discuss how non-compete agreements serve a vital role for employers and how agreements, policies and sound practices can be implemented in order to protect a business's intellectual property and proprietary information, as well as how to deal with a key employee when their employment relationship dissolves.

The seminar will provide strategies on how to implement non-competes and other restrictive covenants, such as:

• Purpose of non compete agreements; protecting employer trade secrets and confidential information
• New Jersey's view regarding non-compete covenants
• Drafting the enforceable agreement: restricted conduct; geographic area covered, duration of the restriction, reasonableness, public policy issues related to corporate liability as well as individual liability
• Duty of loyalty by the employee to the employer
• Breaching the restrictive covenant; theft of trade secrets
• Employer's recourse for a breach or theft
• What the former employee can anticipate
• Litigation issues: establishing a claim; remedies; damages
• Recent case law
• Judicial perspective

You can access additional seminar information online here.

Full post as published by New Jersey Law Blog on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).