Legal Developments & Dispute Resolution Strategies for Non-Competes & Other Restrictive Covenants

  • Thu, June 02, 2022
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Via Zoom

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Thursday, June 2 | 2:00 PM
Legal Developments & Dispute Resolution Strategies for Non-Competes & Other Restrictive Covenants

This is an advanced webinar on non-competes and other restrictive covenants (i.e., non-solicits and non-disclosures). Over the past few years, many states have enacted new laws limiting the use of non-compete agreements. The Biden Administration also directed the FTC to consider federal rules to limit non-compete use. Yet, the trend by employers to utilize and enforce non-competes and other restrictive covenants has not slowed down. The combination of increased social awareness of the impact of non-competes, on one hand, and employer utilization, on the other hand, has led to an increased focus on dispute resolution strategies for non-compete conflicts. To that end, this webinar will cover:

  • A brief overview of restrictive covenants and when they are typically used;
  • Recent changes in federal and state laws that government non-competes;
  • Enforcement strategies; and
  • Defense strategies

Our Speakers

Will Cantrell is an attorney at Cantrell Zwetsch, a business litigation law firm focused on competition, consumer, and workplace disputes. The firm has assembled a group of attorneys who are objectively highly credentialed - from top law schools and/or top of class.

Will personally has focused his 12+ year career on guidance and litigation involving employee mobility and non-compete agreements, employment law, trade secrets, executive compensation, false advertising, intellectual property, and class/collective actions relating to consumer and compensation matters. Prior to private practice, he served a federal law clerk to a senior federal district judge in the U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia.
Will is a graduate of FSU College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2008), graduating in the top five percent of his law class. He also received a master’s degree in international economics from FSU (M.A., cum laude, 2005).

Alissa A. Kranz focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation and employment. Alissa represents individual business owners; employees; and companies, both small and large in a variety of complex matters in both Federal and State courts. Prior to joining Cantrell Zwetsch, Alissa served as a federal judicial law clerk to the Honorable Susan C. Bucklew of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and worked as a business litigation associate at a large defense firm within its National Trial Practice Group.

She also worked as a first-party property associate, where she represented some of the nation’s largest insurance carriers at the litigation and pre-litigation stages. Alissa has been selected as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine for the years 2018 through 2021, an honor based on peer review that is reserved for the top 2.5% of attorneys under the age of 40. Alissa has also been recognized by Florida Trend magazine as a Legal Elite Up & Comer for the years 2019 through 2021 and as a Best Lawyers: One to Watch for 2022. Alissa obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Florida, Magna Cum Laude, where she graduated seventh in her law school class, served as an editor of the Florida Law Review, was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and held various positions in campus organizations.

Alissa obtained the highest grade in her law school class in the following courses: Civil Procedure, Income Tax, UCC and CISG Sales, and Family Law. Prior to attending law school, Alissa graduated with her Bachelors of Science in Marketing from the University of Alabama, Magna Cum Laude, where she was a member of the Varsity Women’s Rowing team and remains one of the most decorated athletes in program history.