To the uninitiated, a standard non-disclosure, non-competition and non-solicitation agreement may seem like pages of meaningless legal “boilerplate” punctuated by a few interesting sentences containing the guts of the document: the restrictions themselves. A recent Massachusetts court decision illustrates that this approach to noncompetition agreements can be perilous. The case underscores the need for employers that utilize non-competition and non-solicitation agreements to give careful attention not just to the specific restrictions being imposed,… More