Non-Competition, Non-Solicitation and Non-Disclosure Enforcement

The attorneys in the Labor and Employment and the Business Services Departments have extensive experience in representing clients with respect to non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreements. Our attorneys consult with clients who seek to protect themselves from unfair competition by individuals who might wrongfully appropriate customers, clients, vendors and suppliers or who might misappropriate trade secret information or seek to solicit away employees. Their work includes drafting provisions for employment contracts and other agreements.

These agreements typically consider the following provisions:

• Non-competition
  
• Non-solicitation (customers/vendors/employees)
  
• Confidentiality and non-disclosure
  
• Venue and specific performance

We are particularly sensitive to, and will counsel our clients on, enforceability of these provisions in Missouri, Illinois, other jurisdictions in the U.S.A., and internationally.

Labor and Employment Department attorneys enforce these provisions in courts throughout the U.S.A. and have obtained temporary restraining orders, preliminary and permanent injunctions on behalf of clients. They have also pursued damage claims arising from alleged breaches of non-competition, no-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements.

Our attorneys have also represented executives and professional employees when their previous employers seek to enforce overly broad or otherwise invalid restrictive covenant provisions.