EMPLOYMENT LAW

Has your company spent years and substantial sums of money developing a device, application, process, customer list or other trade secret only to have an employee leave your company and begin competing with you with your own property? Have you had an employee who signed a covenant not to compete leave your employment and go to work with a competitor, telling you that “those things aren’t enforceable anyway?”

Mr. Kuykendall has years of experience in seeking injunctive relief to protect your interests when an employee has improperly taken your confidential trade secrets or gone into competition with you despite having signed a covenant not to compete. You do not have to sit back and watch your time, investment and competitive advantage be used against you. But it is important to know what you can and cannot do, and what results to expect. If you are in the position of wanting to enter into a covenant not to compete with your employee, it is also important to know how a covenant should be structured, because if it is not structured properly, it will not be enforceable.

Have you had discrimination claims filed against you or been visited by a Wage Hour investigator from the Department of Labor? Mr. Kuykendall has successfully handled these types of claims and others involving:

Knowing how to respond to these issues can save you tens of thousands of dollars. And often how to respond is nothing you can learn in a book. It comes from experience. Mr. Kuykendall has successfully handled a variety of employment issues over the years. He has also drafted employment contracts and been involved in litigation concerning those contracts for many years. As a result, Mr. Kuykendall has a seasoned perspective on what to include in a contract and how to best represent you when that contract ends up in the courtroom.