Bloomberg Law
Feb. 8, 2016, 2:49 PM UTC

How a Legal Journalist Got Fired for a Non-Compete

Casey Sullivan

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an investigation of employers’ use of non-compete agreements.

The article centered on Stephanie Russell-Kraft, a 28-year-old journalist who Thomson Reuters fired within weeks after hiring her in September, learning she had signed a non-compete agreement in 2013 with her former employer, the legal news site Law360.

Russell-Kraft was to cover the business of law for Reuters, a role that would have competed with Bloomberg and Bloomberg BNA. Both Law360 and Reuters compete with Bloomberg companies and, in an additional disclosure, I also covered the business of law ...

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