If a competitor has ever tried to hire away one of your teams, you know the real damage is rarely limited to the people who leave. It is the customers who follow them, the deals already in the pipeline, and the confidential information that walks out the door alongside them. The hardest version of this is when the raid is …
Your Arbitration Agreement Might Not Do What You Think It Does
If your company uses a standard employment arbitration agreement, the California Court of Appeal just handed you a reason to pull it out and read it carefully. Not because of a federal statute that’s been generating headlines. Because of California’s own unconscionability doctrine, applied with a level of specificity that should make any employer uncomfortable if the last time anyone …

