In a suit alleging tortious interference and breach of contract by a former employee and his new employer, the lawyers reached a $1.8 million settlement before discovery even changed hands. IT product solutions reseller Govplace charged a former salesperson with secretly reaching a new employment agreement with competitor Universal Understanding and then diverting sales opportunities while still employed at Govplace, costing the company millions of dollars.

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An Alexandria federal judge will enforce a lucrative noncompete agreement between Capital One Financial Corp. and two former top executives. The decision by U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady in Capital One Financial Corp. v. Kanas (VLW 012-3-213) is remarkable for ...

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A bill that would outlaw Virginia noncompete agreements is dead in the House of Delegates. House Bill 1187, introduced by Del. Patrick Hope, D-Arlington, would have banned contracts restricting former employees from engaging in any lawful profession, trade or business. ...

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An employee for a pest-control company who went to work for a competitor need not worry about that noncompete he signed some time ago. Today a divided Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed dismissal of the company’s suit to enforce the ...

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A new case from Hanover County demonstrates once again what happens when companies write noncompete agreements that overreach. They get tossed out the door. In Specialty Marketing Inc. v. Lawrence (VLW 010-8-061), the employee signed a noncompete as part of ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has declined to overturn an arbitration award that included resolution of a noncompete issue. In Cotton Creek Circles LLC v. San Luis Valley Water Co., the high court looked at a case involving ranches and ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia dropped the other shoe today in the second of two wrongful death cases involving charities that it heard in October. As we reported here last week, the court reinstated by unpublished order a dismissal by ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia dropped the other shoe today in the second of two wrongful death cases involving charities that it heard in October. As we reported here last week, the court reinstated by unpublished order a dismissal by ...

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Noncompete cases always seem to generate a great deal of interest when we feature them in the paper. This week, we got a case that has a new twist. It was decided by Virginia Beach Circuit Judge Joe Canada. The ...

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In the March 3 issue of Virginia Lawyers Weekly, we reported an interesting twist in a doctor’s noncompete case out of Winchester Circuit Court. The case is General Surgery Specialists v. Bowers. A judge held that a noncompete prohibiting a ...

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