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02/05/2025

Gary Friedman, Kate Perrelli, and Cat Johns Write on Delaware Supreme Court Reviving Employee Choice Doctrine in American Lawyer/Law.com

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Seyfarth’s Gary Friedman, Kate Perrelli, and Cat Johns co-authored an article, “Rejuvenation of a Sharp Employer Non-Compete Tool: Delaware Supreme Court Reinvigorates the Employee Choice Doctrine,” online in The American Lawyer and Law.com on February 5 and in the hard copy edition of the New York Law Journal on March 4. The Seyfarth attorneys discussed how a recent court ruling in Delaware may have a major impact on the FTC’s ban last year on non-compete clauses in employee contracts.

“Post-employment restrictive covenants, once viewed as near fortresses to protect proprietary information, customer and employee relationships, and competitive advantage, are now under heightened scrutiny.”

The full article is available here.