This article details a Silicon Valley legal news story which lies at the nexus of antitrust laws and employment agreements. The reason? Several tech employers allegedly agreed not to poach employees from another, and this article explains...
This article analyzes a recently-passed California law which requires certain notices be given in writing to newly hired employees at the time of their hiring. The article details the types of notices required by the new law and points to a...
One thing to consider when planning an offering is what investor qualifications you can live with. In making this decision it’s important to keep in mind that the definition of “accredited investor” is now more limited than it...
How do you get rid of someone with whom you founded a startup? This article points out that this can be not only a very thorny problem but also a necessary issue to tackle head-on for the health of the young business. In that vein, the...
This article relates the facts of a case before a California court about the ownership rights and value of an employee-operated company Twitter account (and its followers). It also examines how this lawsuit illustrates the increasingly...
If an employee of yours uses a work computer for purposes unrelated to your business, does that employee commit a federal crime? While the answer to that question certainly depends to some extent on the nature of the uses in question, this...
When selling your business, why would you, as the seller, want to expressly promise not to compete with the business you just sold for some time after the sale? As this article points out, courts operating under New York law have, absent an...
This article reviews a recent employment law decision by the California Supreme Court regarding whether employers must police employees during meal breaks to ensure that such employees are not working in those periods. In the case in question,...
This article relates to an executive compensation problem. Specifically, an offer letter promised an incoming executive a certain number of stock options, but the offeror's board did not approve the grant. What can the executive do? ...
This article reviews a recent trend among some employers which represents an extremely bad idea--monitoring prospective employees' social media accounts. The article paints a vivid picture of a hiring manager looking over a would-be employee's...