Derrick Foard, an attorney in the firm’s Charlotte office, was selected for the 2025 Bar Leadership Institute (BLI) of the 26th Judicial District Bar. The Mecklenburg Bar Association hosted a kick-off celebration on Thursday, January 23rd. The program recognized this year’s class of 20 members and was followed by a […]
Attorney Derrick Foard was quoted in today’s North Carolina Lawyers Weekly article “Lawyers, employers cast wary eyes on noncompete rule.” Derrick was also recently published on the subject by the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorney’s Employment Law Practice Group.
As I wrote about last year for the NCADA’s Employment Law Practice Group (here), the non-compete agreement is quickly falling out of favor. At that time, we previewed the proposed rule by the FTC that would largely ban non-compete agreements. On April 23, 2024, the final rule was announced. It […]
Ellis & Winters lawyers Jeremy Falcone and Derrick Foard were recently published in the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys’ (NCADA) on-line publication, The Resource. The article, “The Day the Non-Compete Died,” focuses on potential new impediments to non-compete agreements including a proposed new rule introduced by the Federal Trade […]