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When the Walls Come A Tumblin' Down: A Look at What Happens When Lawyers Sign Non-Competition Agreements and Break Them
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Welliver, Daylon L. |
| Copyright Year | 1996 |
| Abstract | the contract. First, it is not uncommon for companies, when hiring or training specially skilled employees, to require these employees to sign non-competition covenants. These covenants protect the company from the possibility that employees will leave and use information gained or contacts made while employed to compete against former employers. For example, the medical profession today widely uses non-competition contracts that prohibit doctors from leaving a practice to compete with it.' However, lawyers have enacted a self-policing rule that generally disallows non-competition contracts.^ This has been done in the name of protecting client interests in having ready access to the lawyer of their choice, and, ostensibly, in giving the lawyer the right to practice law freely.^ This issue has arisen in a number of contexts, but a relatively new decision approaches this subject in an interesting way. In a recent case decided by the Indiana Court of Appeals, Third District, a personal injury firm with three offices began to split."* Sweeney and Pfeifer, two |
| Starting Page | 729 |
| Ending Page | 748 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.18060/3190 |
| Volume Number | 29 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/inlawrev/article/download/3190/3117 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.18060/3190 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
