by Charles Horowitz | Aug 27, 2019 | Employment Law
Businesses, rightly or wrongly, believe that home court advantage exists in litigation, not just sports. Accordingly, employment agreements including non-competition provisions often contain language designating the location (as well as law) for resolving disputes....
by Charles Horowitz | Mar 24, 2019 | Contracts, Leases, & Disputes, Employment Law
Does an employee’s non-competition or non-solicitation agreement remain enforceable if the employing company undergoes a change in ownership? Over the years, a substantial number of Federal and State court judges have addressed the issue. Despite...
by Charles Horowitz | Feb 20, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Without the benefit of court guidance, conventional wisdom in Minnesota has long been that non-competes are enforceable only up to their contractually stated limits. A one year non-compete should run one year from the date the employee departs, not a day more. This...
by Charles Horowitz | Feb 12, 2019 | Consumer Law, Employment Law
Federal and state law allows consumers, employees and other groups of persons under certain circumstances to amalgamate and jointly pursue common legal claims against an individual defendant. Such class actions or, in the vernacular of the Fair Labor Standards Act...
by Charles Horowitz | Jan 23, 2019 | Employment Law
Growing up in Minnesota, I heard a lot about the “Five State Area”, consisting of Minnesota and its neighbors to the South, West and East: Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. A region, I later came to learn, unknown to anyone from those...
