A More Mobility-Friendly Approach To Noncompetes In Ill.?

By Dan Fazio and Shane Blackstone (April 27, 2018, 11:44 AM EDT) -- Last week, a federal district judge in Chicago dismissed a noncompete case — at the pleading stage — finding that the noncompetition covenant at issue was overbroad, as a matter of law, because the covenant restricted the employee from taking any position with another company that engaged in the same business as the employer, without regard to whether that position was similar to a position the employee held with the employer, or was otherwise competitive with the employer.[1]...

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