FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION RULES FROM ON HIGH: THE DEATH KNELL OF NON-COMPETES?

By G. A. Finch Spring 2024 brought the business community a monumental development in the law of non-competition covenants.  The business community and lawyers will sort through its  impact over the summer and navigate its application and legal sufficiency in the coming months. Under its issued final Non-Compete Clause Rule, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)… Read More FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION RULES FROM ON HIGH: THE DEATH KNELL OF NON-COMPETES?

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WHITHER THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION’S PROPOSED NATIONAL BAN ON NON-COMPETES? 

By G. A. Finch In my 08 June 2024 blog post,   Federal Trade Commission Rules  From on High: The Death Knell of Non-Competes?, I commented on the 23 April 2024  Federal Trade Commission (FTC) final Non-Compete Clause Rule (the “Rule”), which essentially gutted the legal permissibility of the use of non-compete covenants in American business. … Read More WHITHER THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION’S PROPOSED NATIONAL BAN ON NON-COMPETES? 

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CRAZY NOT TO OBTAIN AND READ EXHIBITS AND REFERENCED DOCUMENTS IN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS

By G. A. Finch   It is commonplace for an executive to ask for my legal advice when the executive is contemplating leaving an employer or the executive has been terminated. Of course, I ask for a copy of the executive’s employment agreement, if any, to analyze the rights, duties, and obligations that the executive… Read More CRAZY NOT TO OBTAIN AND READ EXHIBITS AND REFERENCED DOCUMENTS IN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS

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LEADERSHIP DURING THE TIME OF DYSTOPIA AND FOREBODING MIASMA

By G. A. Finch In the month of March, in the year of 2020, in the world, in the United States, the Era of the COVID-19 Virus has unequivocally and rudely arrived.   Many times, as executives or professionals, we have recently heard the exclamations from friends, families, neighbors, colleagues, clients, customers, and patients: “These are… Read More LEADERSHIP DURING THE TIME OF DYSTOPIA AND FOREBODING MIASMA

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CBA RECORD REVIEW OF THE SAVVY EXECUTIVE: THE HANDBOOK COVERING EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS, COMPENSATION, EXECUTIVE SKILLS AND MUCH MORE

Gratified to see Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Jr.’s review of my book, The Savvy Executive, for the Chicago Bar Association’s magazine, CBA Record.          – – Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Jr., Editorial Board Member, writes: “If you represent corporate executives, or professionals, you should read The Savvy Executive by savvy Chicago corporate… Read More CBA RECORD REVIEW OF THE SAVVY EXECUTIVE: THE HANDBOOK COVERING EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS, COMPENSATION, EXECUTIVE SKILLS AND MUCH MORE

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