Negotiating Enforceable Noncompetition and Nonsolicitation Agreements: Compliance With State Statutes and Case Law

Mr. Bindra focuses his practice on employment and executive agreements, noncompete, non-solicit and trade secret disputes, business consulting, executive career counseling, appeals, whistleblower claims, employment arbitration agreements, unpaid wages, and employment discrimination. He has extensive experience working with executives physicians, and corporations. Mr. Bindra was also one of the lead architects and drafters of an amendment to the Illinois Freedom to Work Act that significantly reformed how noncompete and non-solicit agreements are litigated in the state of Illinois. He testified in support of the law and helped bring together a bipartisan coalition of support. As a result, the amendment passed with unanimous support in the Illinois legislature in 2021.

Mr. Milligan Co-Chairs the firm's Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Noncompetes Practice Group. His practice encompasses a wide variety of commercial litigation and employment matters, including general business and contract disputes, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation and other IP theft, franchise litigation, and other business torts. His practice focuses on trade secret, noncompete and data protection litigation and transactional work on a state, national and international platform. Mr. Milligan serves as Chair of the ABA Intellectual Property Section’s Trade Secrets and Tortious Interference Committee.

Ms. Warner guides clients through a wide range of employment law and human resources issues they face while doing business. She helps her clients avoid liability by consulting on disciplinary processes, termination of employees, and day-to-day human resources matters and by drafting employment agreements, separation agreements, confidentiality, restrictive covenant agreements, and employment policies. In a legal environment that often favors the employee, she has the experience, both in and out of court, to craft enforceable employee non-compete agreements, safeguarding your company’s interests and trade secrets when employees leave to start potentially competive businesses in the same space.