About the Course
Introduction
This CLE course will discuss current legislative and case law trends regarding noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements, offer best practices for structuring enforceable contracts, and explain how to determine whether existing agreements are lawful.
Description
Companies often require employees to sign restrictive covenant agreements that include noncompetition, nonsolicitation, and confidentiality clauses. A noncompete provision prohibits a former employee from working for a competitor, while a nonsolicitation provision typically prohibits a former employee from soliciting customers and poaching employees.
State laws differ widely regarding restrictive covenants, and laws continue to rapidly evolve. Some states, like California, will generally not enforce a noncompete agreement. Other states, like Illinois, may apply a restrictive covenant subject to certain conditions such as if the employer provided adequate consideration to the employee for the covenant and the covenant is necessary to protect a company's legitimate business interests.
Noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements can be crucial to a company's bottom line, but drafting enforceable provisions is tricky. Counsel must know the legal standards that vary state by state and stay abreast of rulings and legislative changes that may happen without much fanfare.
Listen as our distinguished panel discusses recent legislative changes and case law trends related to restrictive covenants and offers employment counsel best practices for structuring permissible agreements and analyzing whether existing agreements are lawful.
Presented By
Mr. Beck has over 35 years of experience as a complex business, trade secrets, and restrictive covenant litigator, representing clients in state and federal court trials, arbitrations, and mediations throughout the country, from pre-litigation through trial and appeal. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to individuals. In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Beck helps clients with the preparation of noncompetition agreements, nondisclosure agreements, no-raid agreements, nonsolicitation agreements, and other restrictive covenants; the development of comprehensive trade secret protection programs; trade secret protection training; and strategizing the on-boarding and off-boarding of employees subject to restrictive covenants who are joining a client from a competitor or leaving a client to join a competitor. His work spans a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biomedical, life sciences, software, computer-related technology, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, retail, B2B sales and distribution, marketing, hospitality and events, insurance, financial services, legal services, expert services, consulting, staffing, and many others.
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.
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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Date + Time
- event
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
- schedule
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
I. Overview of recent legislation and case law decisions impacting restrictive covenants
II. Analysis of trends in restrictive covenants from state to state
III. How to analyze existing restrictive covenants
IV. Best practices for employers and employment counsel in structuring new agreements to ensure compliance with recent changes
The panel will review these and other relevant topics:
- What are the recent legislative changes impacting restrictive covenants?
- What are the current case law decisions affecting noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements?
- How can employers structure restrictive covenants to comply with new laws and decisions?
- How can employment counsel analyze existing agreements for compliance?
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