Practical Tips for Drafting Noncompete Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants

Morrison Foerster’s Co-chair of the Global Employment + Labor Group Eric Akira Tate will present during PLI’s Fundamentals of Noncompetes 2025 program in New York, NY, on April 10, 2025. Eric will speak on the following panel: “Practical Tips for Drafting Noncompete Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants” on Thursday, April 10, 2025, 2:45 – 3:45 p.m. EDT. This program will cover in what circumstances an employer should ask an employee to sign a noncompete or other restrictive covenant, evaluate the legal options available to address employees working in other states, craft appropriate restrictions for different level employees to increase the likelihood of enforcement, despite the generally increasing scrutiny applied by courts, and examine the interplay between geographic breadth and business description, especially in the digital age of remote and hybrid workplaces.

Speakers include:

• Nicole Corvini Daly, Partner, Beck Reed Riden LLP (Boston, MA)
• Dawn Mertineit, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (Boston, MA)
• Scott R. McLaughlin, Shareholder, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Houston, TX)
• C. Max Perlman, Partner, Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP (Boston, MA)
• Eric Akira Tate, Co-chair, Global Employment + Labor Group, Morrison Foerster LLP (San Francisco, CA)

To learn more or register, please visit the PLI website.