Tag: non-compete

Outdoor Legal: What’s a reasonable non-compete?

It’s standard to include non-compete language in an asset purchase.   A non-compete needs to be limited as to geography and time or it might be thrown out.  That’s the lesson of Wolverine Sign Works v Powers.  Here are the facts. In 1926 Leo Powers sold 20 billboard faces in 6 […]

A Too Broad Non-Compete May be Unenforceable

Out of home companies sometimes require employees to sign a non-compete agreement in which they agree not to go to work for a competitor for a period of time after they leave.  Don’t make the terms of your non-compete too broad or it may be unenforceable.  That’s the lesson of […]