https://bulrushlabs.com/articles/tag/law/Recent content in Law on Bulrush Labs — Richard TibbettsHugoen-usSat, 11 Jul 2009 10:06:00 +0000https://bulrushlabs.com/articles/2009/07/11/the-real-reasons-for-eliminating-non-competes-in-massachusetts/Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:06:00 +0000https://bulrushlabs.com/articles/2009/07/11/the-real-reasons-for-eliminating-non-competes-in-massachusetts/<p>As I posted in December, there is legislation afoot to ban non-compete agreements in Massachusetts, and I support it. As momentum has picked up, more discussion has ensued. On July 22 the Boston Bar Association will host <a href="https://www.bostonbar.org/ebusiness/Meetings/EventDetail.aspx?ID=3752">Freedom To Compete? A Symposium on Bills Affecting Employee Non-Compete Agreements</a>, but for now the discussion is occuring online.</p> <p>One frequent claim is that we who oppose non-competes are only doing it to emulate California. To whit, in the <a href="https://hypecycles.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/defense-of-non-competes/#comment-49">comment thread</a> of <a href="https://hypecycles.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/defense-of-non-competes/">Amrith Kumar’s post “In defense of employee non-compete agreements”</a> he claims</p>