Employee fired, prosecuted for taking former employer’s confidential information with him

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1. Employee noncompetition clause invalidated because linked to stock-option grant, not to confidential information A appeals court has affirmed a ruling that an employee noncompetition covenant was invalid under Texas law because the noncompete was tied to the issuance...
2. Commission structure in employment agreement results in $4.1 billion judgment for fired employee In the recent Chester v. Freedom Communications case, a California state court confirmed an arbitrator’s award of $4.1 billion to a company’s former employee. See Chester...
3. Idea for employment agreement: Departing employee must explain where s/he stored proprietary information In a Massachusetts departing-employee case, the employment agreement required the employee to provide the employer with (in the court’s words), “information about client accounts and agree­ments,...
4. Think twice before suing a departed employee for trade-secret misappropriation in California, or risk a big attorneys’ fees award “The court affirmed a judgment both denying an injunction and awarding the ex-employees $1,641,216.78 in attorneys’ fees where their former employer was found to have...