Lessons from the Conrad Black Trial on Non-Compete Agreements

The Conrad Black trial provided significant newspaper fodder, with its focus on the convergence of wealth and arrogance; yet for business executives, the essential lessons for protecting their own professional integrity have been largely left untold. For as Conrad Black and his cohorts have discovered, the pursuit of ill-conceived non-compete agreements that facilitate one’s greed can be a perilous venture. And with the legal precedent established by the verdict in the Conrad Black trial, no business executive should expose themselves to a legal assault on the basis of their receipt of non-com
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Admitted to New York State Bar and Law Society of Upper Canada, corporate commercial transactions focusing on acquisitons & divestitures, with cross-border / international trade emphasis