Law360 Agrees to End Non-Compete Pacts for Most Workers

By John Herzfeld, Bloomberg BNA

Law360, the legal news website subsidiary of LexisNexis, has reached a settlement calling for it to end its practice of requiring most employees to sign non-compete agreements, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman (D) announced June 15 (In re Portfolio Media Inc., N.Y. Att’y Gen. Labor Bureau, No. 16-106, assurance of discontinuance 6/14/16).

The June 14 settlement — which limits use of the agreements to Law 360’s editor-in-chief, managing editor and graphics chief — resolves a state probe begun last year by the attorney general after his office became aware of the practice. A spokesman for ...