A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement.

U.S. Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Alabama

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Alaska

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Arizona

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Arkansas

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — California

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Colorado

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Connecticut

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Delaware

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — District of Columbia

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Florida

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Georgia

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Hawaii

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Idaho

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Illinois

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Indiana

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Iowa

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Kansas

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Kentucky

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Louisiana

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Maine

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Maryland

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Massachusetts

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Michigan

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Minnesota

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Mississippi

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Missouri

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Montana

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Nebraska

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Nevada

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — New Hampshire

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — New Jersey

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — New Mexico

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — New York

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — North Carolina

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — North Dakota

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Ohio

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Oklahoma

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Oregon

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Pennsylvania

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Rhode Island

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — South Carolina

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — South Dakota

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Tennessee

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Texas

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Utah

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Vermont

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Virginia

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Washington

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — West Virginia

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Wisconsin

Non-Compete Agreement Review Checklist — Wyoming

Non-Compete Review Checklists

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Alabama employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Restrictive Covenant Act's void-by-default rule, safe-harbor categories, signature formalities, and professional exemption.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Alaska employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Data Management reasonable-necessity test and Alaska's good-faith reasonable-alteration rule.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Arizona employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Valley Medical Specialists v. Farber reasonableness test and Arizona's strict trim-only blue pencil, which strikes overbroad terms but never rewrites them.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Arkansas employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Ark. Code Ann. § 4-75-101's protectable-interest test, two-year presumption, mandatory reformation, and physician ban.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for California employee restrictive covenant agreements — Bus. & Prof. Code § 16600 voids non-competes and customer non-solicits by default, so the review screens for void clauses that create employer liability and checks the surviving confidentiality suite.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Colorado employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under C.R.S. § 8-2-113's earnings thresholds, notice rule, and health-care provider ban.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Connecticut employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the common-law five-factor reasonableness test and Connecticut's occupation-specific statutes.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Delaware employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Court of Chancery reasonableness review, where recent decisions increasingly refuse to blue-pencil an overbroad covenant rather than rewrite it.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for District of Columbia employee restrictive covenant agreements — the District bans non-competes for employees below an annually adjusted pay threshold and enforces a covenant against a highly compensated employee only if it clears strict scope, duration, and 14-day notice gates.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Florida employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Fla. Stat. § 542.335 and the 2025 CHOICE Act.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Georgia employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Georgia Restrictive Covenants Act's reasonableness standard, employee-category gate, and durational presumptions.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Hawaii employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under HRS chapter 480's restraint-of-trade framework and the technology-business employee ban.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Idaho employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Idaho Code title 44, chapter 27's key-employee gate, eighteen-month safe harbor, and mandatory judicial modification.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Illinois employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Illinois Freedom to Work Act (820 ILCS 90), including the earnings thresholds, consideration rule, and 14-day notice gate.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Indiana employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the common-law reasonableness test, the strict eraser blue pencil, and the layered physician statutes.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Iowa employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Revere Transducers three-prong reasonableness test and Iowa's narrow occupation statutes.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Kansas employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the four-factor Weber v. Tillman reasonableness test and the K.S.A. 50-163 non-solicitation safe harbors.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Kentucky employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the common-law fair-protection standard, the Creech new-consideration rule for existing employees, and the temporary health-care staffing ban.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Louisiana employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under La. R.S. 23:921's void-unless-excepted rule, parish-naming requirement, two-year cap, and occupation carve-outs.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Maine employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under 26 M.R.S. § 599-A's wage-floor ban, disclosure duties, and delayed-effectiveness rule.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Maryland employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Md. Code, Lab. & Empl. § 3-716's worker-class voids, the clinician cap, and the Becker reasonableness test.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Massachusetts employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Noncompetition Agreement Act, G.L. c. 149, § 24L, and Massachusetts case law.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Michigan employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under MCL § 445.774a's reasonable-competitive-business-interest test and scope limits.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Minnesota restrictive covenant agreements — date-screening against the Minn. Stat. § 181.988 non-compete ban, then checking the confidentiality, non-solicit, and non-disparagement covenants that remain lawful.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Mississippi employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Texas Road Boring reasonableness balance, the Empiregas bad-faith-termination defense, and the Frierson and Cascio tolling split.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Missouri employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Copeland trade-secrets-or-customer-contacts test and the section 431.202 and 431.204 safe harbors.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Montana employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Mont. Code Ann. § 28-2-703, where absolute restraints are void and only reasonable partial restraints survive.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Nebraska employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Nebraska's three-part reasonableness test, where a customer covenant survives only when limited to customers the employee personally served and no court will rewrite an overbroad restraint.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Nevada employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under NRS 613.195's four-part test, hourly-worker ban, volunteer-customer carve-out, and mandatory judicial revision.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for New Hampshire employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under RSA 275:70's pre-acceptance notice rule, the RSA 275:70-a low-wage ban, and the three-part reasonableness test.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for New Jersey employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Solari/Whitmyer three-part reasonableness test, the occupational bars, and the discrimination-claim concealment rule.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for New Mexico employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Lovelace reasonableness test, the Piano consideration rule, and the § 24A-4-2 health-care practitioner ban.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for New York employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the common-law BDO Seidman reasonableness test and New York case law.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for North Carolina employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Whittaker five-element test, the § 75-4 signed-writing rule, and the strict blue-pencil doctrine.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for North Dakota restrictive covenant agreements — N.D.C.C. § 9-08-06 voids non-competes and customer non-solicits, so the review screens for void restraints and then checks the confidentiality, trade-secret, and anti-raiding clauses that survive.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Ohio employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Raimonde reasonableness test, with discretionary reformation and litigation tolling in view.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Oklahoma restrictive covenant agreements — screening void non-competes under 15 O.S. § 217, fitting customer non-solicits to § 219A's direct-solicitation shape, and checking the surviving confidentiality and anti-raiding suite.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Oregon employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under ORS 653.295's notice rule, salary threshold, 12-month cap, garden-leave path, and the 2025 medical-licensee ban.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Pennsylvania employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Socko four-part test, the new-consideration rule for mid-employment covenants, and Act 74's health care restrictions.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Rhode Island employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the ch. 28-59 worker-category bans, the physician and APRN practice-restriction statutes, and strict common-law reasonableness.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for South Carolina employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the five-factor common-law reasonableness test, where an overbroad covenant fails whole and no court will narrow or reform it.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for South Dakota employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under SDCL 53-9-11's statutory whitelist, the two-year and specified-area limits, the existing-customer rule, and the healthcare practitioner provision.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Tennessee employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Hasty reasonableness test and the 2026 statute that voids non-competes below $70,000 and presumes long time restraints unreasonable.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Texas employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 15.50's ancillary-agreement test, mandatory reformation, and the physician and health-care-practitioner buyout rules.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Utah employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Post-Employment Restrictions Act's one-year cap, employer fee-shifting, and the 2026 healthcare and veterinarian bans.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Vermont employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Andrus reasonableness test and its Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 188 framing, with Vermont's profession-specific covenant bars.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Virginia employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Va. Code § 40.1-28.7:8's low-wage ban and Virginia's strict common-law reasonableness test.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Washington employee restrictive covenant agreements — earnings thresholds, disclosure and consideration timing, layoff pay, and the 2027 ban under chapter 49.62 RCW.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for West Virginia employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under the Reddy reasonableness framework, where a facially unreasonable covenant is void with no judicial narrowing and physician covenants are capped at one year and thirty road miles.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Wisconsin employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Wis. Stat. § 103.465, where an overbroad term voids the covenant in full and no court will narrow it.

A clause-by-clause reviewer checklist for Wyoming employee restrictive covenant agreements — confidentiality, non-solicits, non-competes, and non-disparagement under Wyo. Stat. § 1-23-108 and Wyoming case law.

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