We have previously addressed common contract issues people have brought to us (here, here, here, and here.) People often come to us wondering whether a form contract they have discovered somewhere in the nether regions of the internet will “work” to arrange their business affairs and satisfy their legal needs. Form contracts can be very good or very bad–and the very bad inevitably lead to messy, contentious, and difficult litigation. We know–we have seen it first hand.
Here are a few reasons why you should not rely on form contracts you find on the internet.
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We’ve written a lot about legal issues relating to contract formation and some general contract terms (for instance, here, here, and here). A common kind of contract we have yet to discuss is the non-competition agreement. More generally belonging to a class of agreement known as “restrictive covenants,” which also include non-solicitation agreements, a non-compete agreement purports to restrict an employee of a business from competing against his employer during the employment or for some time once the employment ends. Every business should understand that these kinds of agreements must adhere to certain limitations for a judge to consider enforcing them. These limitations, which we review below, are required because the law permits a business only to restrict competition to the extent necessary to protect its legitimate business interests in a reasonable manner.
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