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Employer May Pursue Multiple Claims Against Competitor for Raiding Employees and Customers

Employer May Pursue Contractual Interference Claims Against Competitor for Raiding Employees and Customers

Employer May Pursue Multiple Claims Against Competitor for Raiding Employees and Customers

In Guild Mortgage Co. v. CrossCountry Mortgage LLC, the California Court of Appeal revived several claims against a company accused of recruiting a competitor’s employees, divertin...

Employer May Pursue Multiple Claims Against Competitor for Raiding Employees and Customers

In Guild Mortgage Co. v. CrossCountry Mortgage LLC, the California Court of Appeal revived several claims against a company accused of recruiting a competitor’s employees, divertin...

Apple’s OpenAI Lawsuit Reveals a Hiring Mistake Every Company Should Avoid

Great employees leave. Your secrets shouldn’t.

AI-Enhanced Misappropriation: When Departing Employees Leave With More Than Just Client Lists

Employers should update confidentiality and information security practices to address the risk that departing employees may use generative artificial intelligence tools to summariz...

Nasdaq Private Market Says Rival Poached Staff And Secrets

A Nasdaq marketplace for pre-IPO stock has filed suit against a competitor, alleging that it has poached employees and clients, stolen trade secrets and other confidential informat...

Realty Rival, Directors Barred From Poaching Brokerage Staff

Two former sales directors for a real estate brokerage must stop recruiting former coworkers for a rival company that hired them, North Carolina's business court has said, finding...

Apple and OpenAI's lawsuit is a reminder that not everything from your old job is yours to bring

Employment lawyers and executive recruiters weigh in on what's generally fair game to bring to a new job.

MMA Alleges Broker Patriot Poached 11 Surety Team Members

Marsh & McLennan Agency has filed suit against brokerage Patriot Growth Insurance Services and eight former members of a surety team over an alleged poaching scheme. Filed earl...

Software Co. Says Exec Is Taking Trade Secrets To Rival

Software company EnterpriseDB asked a Massachusetts judge to stop a former vice president from jumping to competitor Couchbase, citing both a noncompete agreement and evidence that...

Broker Says Ex-Employee Moved 800 Clients To Rival

An insurance brokerage urged a Colorado federal judge Wednesday to block three former employees and a rival from using allegedly stolen trade secrets, saying a senior broker took c...

Can You Fire an Employee for Job Hunting?

Question:  We’ve recently learned that one of our employees is planning to leave the company and has been applying for positions elsewhere. Can we terminate them?  Answered by the...

Can You Fire an Employee for Job Hunting?

Question:  We’ve recently learned that one of our employees is planning to leave the company and has been applying for positions elsewhere. Can we terminate them?  Answered by the...

Mercer Claims Ex-Employee Took Client Info To New Role

The RIA alleged that the former advisor emailed confidential client lists to a personal account before joining a competitor, resulting in $23 million in lost assets.

Acrisure Goes After Former Owners of Businesses it Acquired for Leaving to Compete

Brokerage Acrisure has filed a federal lawsuit, accusing a former employee of using employees and intellectual property to peel away at least 50 clients to a company he started—nam...

Moving Organizer Disputes Poaching Claims After Fallout

A Connecticut federal judge on Monday probed the line between two overlapping trades because a disputed noncompete contract doesn't define either one, hoping to understand a moving...

IMA Financial sues former advisor and rival EPIC over alleged client poaching

He quit "effective immediately" - then ten clients followed him out, his old firm says

Employees’ Side Hustles Raise Legal Questions for Employers

Undertakings given by former employee who went to rival firm

Worker will not disclose any of his previous company’s confidential information

When a Key Employee Walks Out With Your Customers: Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and the Duty of Loyalty in Illinois

The resignation lands on a Friday and feels routine until Monday. Your top salesperson is gone, and so, it turns out, is the customer list, the pricing model, and the quarterly pip...

Acrisure Goes After Former Owners of Businesses It Acquired for Leaving to Compete

Brokerage Acrisure has filed a federal lawsuit, accusing a former employee of using employees and intellectual property to peel away at least 50 clients to a company he started–nam...

When a Competitor Steals Your Client: Tortious Interference Explained

You lose a long-time client to a competitor. A key customer suddenly stops returning calls, then signs with the rival across town. A former salesperson lands at a competitor and wa...

ByteDance offers special stock incentives to AI team to combat poaching

ByteDance's strategic retention efforts highlight the escalating AI talent competition, potentially influencing industry compensation norms. The post ByteDance offers special stock...