Labor & Employment – Contract – Restrictive Covenants – Overbroad – Misappropriation of Trade Secrets
In the context of a covenant not to compete, legitimate business interests include protecting the goodwill that arises from a former employee’s contacts with customers and safeguarding the confidential information to which the former employee had access. Here however, the covenant between plaintiff and defendant Gibson – plaintiff’s former employee – is not sufficiently tailored
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