K&L Gates partner Steven Caponi argued for Payscale that the trial court was wrong to look at the contract in the abstract ...

The enforceability of restrictive covenants in the United States is currently governed by state law, although that may change if federal rules or legislation are enacted to address such covenants.

Employers rely on these provisions not only to protect trade secrets and client relationships, but to protect the return on their substantial investments in employee training. At the same time, ...

Corporates and deal teams should pay careful attention to drafting non-competes and other restrictive arrangements as UK, EU, and US regulators step up enforcement. Regulators on both sides of the ...

This Woodcrest covenant states that only detached, single-family, two-and-a-half-story homes can be built in the subdivision. The George Building Company recorded the covenants in the Wake County ...

For companies operating in a tight geographical market, where local competition is intense and where the sector is crowded, losing members of staff to a rival can often result in the loss of that ...

Using a restrictive covenant in a 1938 deed, neighbors in the Tara-Leeway Heights neighborhood convinced a developer to build a single-family home instead of a duplex. The home, 1313 N. Harrison ...

A Raleigh developer wants to build 12 four-story townhouses at 524 and 528 Barksdale Drive in east Raleigh’s Woodcrest subdivision. The city has approved the project but Steve Sypher, owner of Steve ...

A new, time-lapse video map shows how racially restrictive covenants rapidly spread across Wake Country from 1906 to 1950. First, it’s just a small cluster of red dots — each representing a ...

We've had an offer accepted on a house which is being sold by the local diocese. However, the title deeds have given us cause for concern.