Louis has over 25 years of experience in cases for companies and individuals involving non-compete covenants, trade secrets and other matters associated with departing employees. He has obtained restraining orders and injunctions in numerous cases to prevent departing employees from violating non-compete agreements, diverting customer relationships and misappropriating trade secrets. Louis advises clients on using non-compete covenants in employment contracts and other business agreements, as well as a wide variety of other strategies for protection of key employees, customer relationships and proprietary information. Louis also counsels employers on hiring and departure of key employees, matters involving independent contractors, and workplace privacy issues. In addition, he represents executives and other employees who are separating from and changing their employment. Louis also assists employers with employee handbooks and policies, compensation programs, and defending claims for employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, and unemployment benefits. He has special expertise in assisting medical practices, physicians and other health care providers with employment matters, including hiring and departure of physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Representative Experience
- Represented employer and obtained injunction to enforce departing employee’s non-compete agreement
- Represented departing employees and obtained injunction prohibiting former employer from enforcing non-compete agreements
- Represented employer in resolving claims against departing employee for enforcement of non-compete agreement and misappropriation of trade secrets
- Represented employer and obtained injunction to enforce non-compete agreement against departing employee’s new company on “alter ego” basis
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Prior Legal Experience
Louis served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Alexander B. Denson, United States Magistrate Judge, from 1983 to 1985.