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Over the past decade Attorney Robert Wood has published hundreds of articles on the Texas Contract & Noncompete Disputes Blog, establishing himself as an authority on Texas noncompete law. If you want to gain a better understanding of how noncompete and other contractual issues are handled in the Texas courts, you’re in the right place.
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April 26, 2020 / By Robert Wood
Articles // Non Compete Agreements in Texas
I was let go from my job: Is my non-compete still enforceable? This is a question I have heard a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting massive job losses: My employer fired me. That means my noncompete goes away, right? Not exactly. There is no rule in Texas stating that if an employee is…
April 25, 2020 / By Robert Wood
Articles // Non Compete Agreements in Texas
An oral contract is as good as the paper it is written on. This is simply not true in Texas. In fact, a Texas jury awarded $11 billion dollars in damages to Pennzoil when Texaco interfered with an oral contract for the sale of Getty Oil to Pennzoil, one of the largest jury verdicts in…
November 18, 2019 / By Robert Wood
Articles // Physician Employment Contracts
I Should Have Hired a Lawyer! And Six Other Physician Employment Contract Blunders to Avoid… According to data provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), there are more than 950,000 professional active physicians in the United States, including nearly 62,000 in the state of Texas alone. Each year, many of these physicians change jobs and…
December 20, 2018 / By Robert Wood
Articles // Physician Employment Contracts
10 PRO Tips for Negotiating Your Physician Employment Contract Whether you are an experienced physician or you just out of residency, you need to know how to negotiate a proper employment contract. Unfortunately, many physicians make serious mistakes when negotiating the terms of their employment, thereby putting themselves in a vulnerable position. Negotiating a physician…
October 6, 2017 / By Robert Wood
Non Compete Agreements in Texas
Does your company need to have its employees sign noncompete agreements? If your company fits into any of these categories, the answer is almost certainly “Yes.” I have clients that I need to protect. Some of these clients have been with me for years, and we have, through hard work over a period of time,…
February 8, 2017 / By Robert Wood
Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act
In Texas, a business and/or employer can bring a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets if a competitor or employee acquires a business’s trade secrets improperly or uses them without permission. Tantamount to establishing a misappropriation of trade secrets claim is establishing that a trade secret, in fact, existed. Under Texas law, a “trade secret”…
February 3, 2017 / By Robert Wood
Non Compete Agreements in Texas
Many noncompete cases are filed after an employer learns that an ex-employee is violating his covenant not to compete. Sometimes, an ex-employee competes for several months before an employer discovers that the ex-employee is doing so. This is especially possible in an age in which much commerce is done via the internet. Thus, by the…
January 25, 2017 / By Robert Wood
Non Compete Agreements in Texas
Under Texas law, parties may only be entitled to recover their attorneys’ fees if permitted by statute, by a contract between the parties, or under equity. At times, there may be multiple avenues for a prevailing party to receive attorneys’ fees. However, at other times, a statute may preempt, or override, every other avenue to…
December 29, 2016 / By Robert Wood
Physician Employment Contracts
Under Texas law, non-compete agreements involving a physician in some situations must include a handful of provisions (“requirements”) in order for the non-compete to be enforceable. One such requirement is that a physician non-compete agreement must contain a buyout provision. When must a buyout provision be included? Are requirements like buyout provisions required in all…
October 17, 2016 / By Robert Wood
Articles // Non Compete Agreements in Texas
Worldwide Geographic Restriction of Texas Noncompete Agreements May Be Enforceable Last revised: 10.17.16 In the past, Texas courts have not fully embraced the ability of a non-compete agreement to restrict an employee from working anywhere in the world. In several cases, Texas courts have held that the proper geographic scope of a noncompete agreement is…
