CNBC Cites Beck Reed Riden LLP’s Noncompete Survey
A recent article from CNBC relies in part on Beck Reed Riden LLP’s 50 State Noncompete Survey.
The article focuses on a lawsuit filed by Amazon against one of its former employees who started working for Google. In the lawsut, filed in the Superior Court of the State of Washington, Amazon contends that its former Vice President of Product Marketing for Amazon’s cloud computing business developed and knows the entire confidential Amazon cloud product roadmap for 2020-21.
Ruling in Amazon’s favor, the court reportedly entered a Temporary Restraining Order barring the employee from reviewing and editing speeches for the Google Cloud Next conference.
The MSNBC article cites Beck Reed Riden LLP’s state-by-state analysis of non-compete agreements as follows:
Several technology industry workers have begun sounding off anew about laws permitting non-compete rules.
In general, California courts have refused to enforce non-compete agreements for employees who live in the state, even if they signed the agreements in another state.
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But companies can exercise various types of non-compete agreements in Washington, Massachusetts, New York and other states, according to a guide maintained by Boston law firm Beck Reed Riden.
The author is Jordan Novet, a technology reporter for CNBC.com.
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The Wall Street Journal featured Beck Reed Riden LLP’s noncompete agreement experience. In 2016, the White House issued a report entitled, “Non-Compete Agreements: Analysis of the Usage, Potential Issues, and State Responses,” relying in part on Beck Reed Riden LLP’s research and analysis, including its 50 State Noncompete Survey.
Russell Beck’s work in this area is well recognized, and includes:
- Over twenty five years of working on trade secret, noncompete, and unfair competition matters
- Assisting the Obama White House as part of a small working group to develop President Obama’s Noncompete Call to Action
- Authoring the book Negotiating, Drafting, and Enforcing Noncompetition Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants (5th ed., MCLE, Inc. 2015), used by other lawyers to help them with their noncompete matters
- Authoring the book Trade Secrets Law for the Massachusetts Practitioner (1st ed. MCLE 2019), covering trade secrets nationally, with a focus on Massachusetts law
- Drafting and advising on legislation for the Massachusetts Legislature to define, codify, and improve noncompetition law
- Teaching Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants at Boston University School of Law
- Founding and administrating the award-winning blog, Fair Competition Law
- Establishing and administrating the Noncompete Lawyers and Trade Secret Protection groups on LinkedIn, with over 1,600 members around the world
- Founded and chaired the Trade Secret / Noncompete Practice for an AmLaw 100 firm
In addition, Russell was honored for his work in this area of law in the 2019 Chambers USA Guide, which stated that Russell Beck is a “terrific” attorney, who “is an excellent choice of counsel regarding noncompete agreements and the resolution of restrictive covenant disputes.” Chambers noted that Russell “basically wrote the new Massachusetts statute on noncompetes” and that “he’s an expert in employee mobility and nonrestrictive covenants.”
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