Nicole Daly’s Positive Result Featured in Lawyers Weekly
The August, 1, 2016, edition of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly features Nicole Daly and Will Haddad in a story titled “Noncompete rights not dischargeable.”
The story is about a recent decision in a matter pending in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, D. Massachusetts, titled In re: Carl S. Hurvitz. In that decision, Beck Reed Riden LLP’s attorneys secured a positive result for their client, a creditor who was seeking to enforce certain noncompete and nonsolicitation provisions of a franchise agreement that it entered into with the debtor.
As described by Lawyers Weekly, the court’s decision provides that “a franchisor’s rights to enforce noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements are not claims that a debtor can discharge,” as long as the franchisor “does not alternatively have a right to payment of monetary damages.”
Nicole Daly was quoted in the article as follows:
One of the creditor’s lawyers, Boston’s Nicole Corvini Daly, who worked on the case with her colleague William A. Haddad, said in a written statement that she was pleased with “the clarity” provided by the opinion and the confirmation that the franchisor could pursue injunctive relief in the state court proceeding. She declined to comment further, citing the ongoing proceedings both in the state and federal courts.
The article was written by Lawyers Weekly reporter Kris Olson.
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