Non-Compete & Severance

The severance agreement usually arrives at the worst possible moment: you’ve just been terminated, you’re worried about the mortgage, and HR slides a stack of paper across the table with a number on it and a deadline. The implicit message is that this is a standard document, the number is the number, and you should…

You left your job, started a new one, and a few weeks later a letter arrived from your former employer’s law firm. It says you’re violating your non-compete agreement. It demands that you “immediately cease and desist” working for your new employer. It threatens an injunction, damages, and attorney’s fees. Sometimes a copy goes to…