• Four days after an employee joined a competitor, we obtained a temporary restraining order limiting his ability to have certain interactions with clients. Less than one month later, after a two-day preliminary injunction hearing, the court enforced our client’s contract and barred the former employee from soliciting, accepting business from, or servicing key clients for a 24-month period.  We conducted a quick forensic analysis to show the Court that the former employee had taken massive amounts of confidential information on a memory stick.
• Counseled a high-level executive subject to restrictive covenants who wanted to change employers. His former employer requested a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction pending arbitration, but the court allowed our client to accept business from clients that wanted to work with him. This resulted in a favorable settlement which was timely and cost-effective.
• Our client was granted a unique temporary restraining order stopping a former employee, an insurance agent, from working for a direct competitor and advertising his new position on LinkedIn. The court prohibited the employee from working for the competitor based on the employee’s failure to honor the 60-day notice provision, allowing the client to arrange for a smooth transition of business and decrease the likelihood that clients would leave.
• We obtained partial summary judgment on behalf of our client, an insurance brokerage resulting in a favorable settlement just before trial. Our contract language was enforced in several critical ways and allowed us to effectively oppose a claim that the covenants were not enforceable because of our client’s claimed breach; holding that the former employee breached our agreement by not giving proper notice at the time he resigned and concluding that a 24-month restriction on an insurance producer’s ability to solicit and accept business from former clients was enforceable.
• We obtained a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction for a placement firm, shutting down a group of employees who had established a competing business and used confidential contact information that they had taken with them. Our client was also awarded attorneys’ fees.