Non-competes are banned outright in some states, gutted by courts in others, and now joined by restrictions on training repayment agreements. This session moves past the enforceability debate to the harder question: what tools actually work to protect your company's competitive position, trade secrets, and key relationships when the agreement your predecessor drafted may not hold up?

• Understand what the enforcement trends actually mean for multi-state employers, including the underappreciated internal value of non-competes as the legal basis for sharing sensitive information with your own employees.
• Explore what sophisticated legal teams are deploying instead: IP assignment clauses, garden leave provisions, trade secret protections, and revenue participation structures.
• Get practical guidance on executive contract architecture, equity, IP ownership, and post-employment obligations that hold up when courts won't enforce broad restrictions.