Blog : Texas Litigation

Is a restriction on soliciting employees a non-compete subject to a reasonableness requirement?

Need some ideas for your non-compete jury charge?

Will new changes to the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure make discovery less expensive?

In this installment we move from the Sales Territory principle to the Holistic principle.

How do you submit “misappropriation” to the jury in a Texas trade secrets trial?

A force majeure clause excuses a party from performing a contract when an unexpected event intervenes. But what kind of event?

Sometimes a Texas non-compete will take the form of forfeiture clause rather than an express prohibition on competing. Is that a non-compete?

The Texas legislature amended the TCPA to exempt most non-compete and trade secret claims. So is there anything left of the statute that applies to departing employee litigation?

A non-compete that bars an employee from working in the industry in any capacity is generally an impermissible “industry-wide exclusion” under Texas law.

The Texas Supreme Court’s opinion in Mercedes-Benz v. Carduco is part of a trend carving back the “fraudulent inducement” theory in business transactions.