Fundamentals of Noncompetes 2025

Why You Should Attend

This program is designed to provide a broad-based, foundational introduction to the core concepts of restrictive covenant law, including understanding the different types of restrictive covenants that are generally enforceable but sometimes not enforceable, the interests they can protect, the rules for their use, and basic drafting and litigating techniques. You will gain insights into how to protect your company’s trade secrets, customer relationships, workforce, and other protectable business interests, and how to position your company or client in the event of any future federal regulation of noncompetes, further state limitations, and increasing judicial scrutiny. 

Understanding the changing landscape and its complications and implications is nothing short of critical – particularly for companies engaged in business across state lines.

Bringing together experts in this area of law, the program quickly brings everyone to a level playing field, explaining key concepts in noncompete law, the difference between noncompete agreements, nonsolicitation agreements, and nondisclosure agreements, and how to use each to your advantage, the business interests that can be protected, and how companies can use restrictive agreements to protect them. Next, we will learn the key issues and principles applicable to drafting of restrictive covenants for companies located in one state or many. Finally, we will then explain how to put it all together to best protect your company’s information, customers, and workforce.

What You Will Learn

After completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify the key issues concerning restrictive covenant law and the various kinds of restrictive covenant agreements
• Understand the basics of the interests that are protectable by restrictive covenants, including how they protect trade secrets, customer goodwill, a stable workforce, and other protectable business interests
• Evaluate and update restrictive covenants and related agreements to protect your company’s business interests when employees leave the company, whether voluntarily or involuntarily
• Learn the basics of how to draft restrictive covenants for single-state and multi-state employers
• Manage through the common issues in litigation concerning noncompetes and other restrictive covenants in an increasingly hostile enforcement environment

Who Should Attend

Any lawyer or human resources personnel that will be assisting companies or individuals in drafting, evaluating, enforcing, and defending against noncompetes and other restrictive covenants, anyone involved in the hiring of employees, and anyone else responsible for an organization’s internal hiring policies.

Special Features:

• Convenient half-day program format
• Transitional credit available

Program Level: Basic 

Prerequisites: An interest in learning more about restrictive covenants and the laws that govern them.

Advanced Preparation: None