{"id":43145,"date":"2015-08-27t16:34:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-27t20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=43145"},"modified":"2016-05-16t14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16t18:56:49","slug":"fontaine-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2015\/08\/27\/fontaine-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"the four ways &#8216;non-competes&#8217; #fail in the social media age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>how friending, liking, connecting or tweeting can come back to haunt you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by\u00a0r. peter fontaine<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/newgatelaw.com\">newgate law<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>it is axiomatic that the only true assets of any accounting firm are its clients and its people. \u00a0these relationships are typically protected through a legal agreement between the firm and its people.\u00a0 known as restrictive covenants (or, colloquially, as \u201cnon-competes\u201d), under these contracts former partners and employees are prohibited from soliciting or serving firm clients, and soliciting or hiring firm employees.<\/p>\n<p>restrictive covenants are becoming increasingly more significant in the accounting industry because of the growing mobility of and competition for a scarce workforce and partner and employee \u201cfallout\u201d following a merger. the ever expanding popularity of social media only contributes to the uncertainty surrounding the enforceability and effectiveness of post-employment restrictions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2015\/08\/27\/fontaine-social-media\/#more-43145\" class=\"more-link\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>how friending, liking, connecting or tweeting can come back to haunt you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by\u00a0r. peter fontaine<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/newgatelaw.com\">newgate law<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>it is axiomatic that the only true assets of any accounting firm are its clients and its people. \u00a0these relationships are typically protected through a legal agreement between the firm and its people.\u00a0 known as restrictive covenants (or, colloquially, as \u201cnon-competes\u201d), under these contracts former partners and employees are prohibited from soliciting or serving firm clients, and soliciting or hiring firm employees.<\/p>\n<p>restrictive covenants are becoming increasingly more significant in the accounting industry because of the growing mobility of and competition for a scarce workforce and partner and employee \u201cfallout\u201d following a merger. the ever expanding popularity of social media only contributes to the uncertainty surrounding the enforceability and effectiveness of post-employment restrictions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2015\/08\/27\/fontaine-social-media\/#more-43145\" class=\"more-link\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"129943,136365,130736,138048,135069,134744","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1908,3120],"tags":[1124,906,139],"class_list":["post-43145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-pro-member-exclusive","tag-partnership","tag-social-media","tag-talent","membership-content","access-restricted"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>the four ways &#039;non-competes&#039; 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