Work With A Skilled Minneapolis Noncompete Attorney
Last updated on January 22, 2025
You have always been able to compete fairly and succeed. That’s the game. When someone cheats by poaching a key employee and using her to sell to all of your customers, that’s unfair. If you have a proper noncompete and nonsolicitation agreement in place with your employees, you may be able to sue and stop this from happening, or at least, hold those responsible for breaking and interfering with your non-compete agreements. Once the damage starts, it only multiplies – usually exponentially.
Protect Your Business With A Minnesota Noncompete Lawyer
Attorney Mark T. Thompson can aggressively, effectively and efficiently fight for your rights and protect your business from potentially devastating harm when a noncompete or nonsolicitation agreement is broken. You must act fast when faced with a violated non-compete agreement. After the bell has been rung by a former worker helping your competitor steal your customers, the bell cannot be unrung completely. But you can act quickly to silence it and limit the damage that is being done. Don’t wait, contact us now if you need help navigating Minnesota noncompete laws.
Discuss Your noncompete concerns with Minneapolis attorney Mark Thompson by calling 612-217-2913 for a consultation.
Minnesota Noncompete Enforcement Strategies
Attorney Thompson will get your case into court and ask the judge to issue a temporary restraining order or injunction as fast as possible. He can rapidly get your case sorted out when time is critical and your business depends on getting to Court as soon as possible.
Attorney Thompson has represented a broad spectrum of people, including salespeople, doctors, insurance agents and other licensed professionals as well as the businesses that employ them. With a foundation in business acumen and experience with employment agreements restricting the ability to compete against, or solicit employees or customers from a former employer, he knows how enforceable your agreements may be.
Understanding Noncompete Agreements In Business Transactions
It is one thing if your noncompete agreement is with an employee, but Minnesota Courts analyze these agreements with a different legal standard than if they are part of an agreement that involved the sale or purchase of a business. Make sure you apply the proper standard when suing over your noncompete agreement, negotiating the terms of one or trying to decide how enforceable it will be in the future.
- Noncompete agreements: When employers share ideas and business practices with employees, partners and others, a noncompete agreement helps make sure that these people do not impact the employer’s bottom line by working for the competition. By law, noncompete agreements must be limited in scope, duration and geography in order to be enforceable.
- Nonsolicitation agreements: Customers and employees are a business’s biggest assets. Nonsolicitation agreements limit the contact that a former employee can have with a business’s existing customers and employees. When an employee signs a nonsolicitation agreement, he or she agrees not to take valuable customers or other employees along when leaving the business.
Do you need legal advice on noncompete agreements in the Twin Cities? Reach out to MKT Law at 612-217-2913 now.