K&L Gates partner Steven Caponi argued for Payscale that the trial court was wrong to look at the contract in the abstract ...

The enforceability of restrictive covenants in the United States is currently governed by state law, although that may change if federal rules or legislation are enacted to address such covenants.

Employers rely on these provisions not only to protect trade secrets and client relationships, but to protect the return on their substantial investments in employee training. At the same time, ...

Even companies that diligently prepare non-competes and other restrictive covenants for their employees to sign often miss some of the essential steps necessary to ensure those agreements will later ...

A Raleigh developer wants to build 12 four-story townhouses at 524 and 528 Barksdale Drive in east Raleigh’s Woodcrest subdivision. The city has approved the project but Steve Sypher, owner of Steve ...

Using a restrictive covenant in a 1938 deed, neighbors in the Tara-Leeway Heights neighborhood convinced a developer to build a single-family home instead of a duplex. The home, 1313 N. Harrison ...

A new, time-lapse video map shows how racially restrictive covenants rapidly spread across Wake Country from 1906 to 1950. First, it’s just a small cluster of red dots — each representing a ...

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This Woodcrest covenant states that only detached, single-family, two-and-a-half-story homes can be built in the subdivision. The George Building Company recorded the covenants in the Wake County ...