Mercer Management Consulting, Inc. v. Wilde

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that employees can make plans to compete with their employers while employed in the absence of unfair acts or injury to the employer
• recognizing that employees can make plans to compete with their employers while employed in the absence of unfair acts or injury to the employer
• concluding that an employer’s one-year restriction on “rendering of services to [its] clients” was “reasonable and enforceable” given “the vital importance of its client base to its business[] and the close contacts established between its consultants and its client base”
• recognizing as “legitimate interests” an employer’s desire “to protect the investment made in its employees, preserve the confidentiality of information gleaned in the course of employment . . . , and protect itself from its employees leaving and capitalizing on [its] client base”
• even while employed, an employee may make arrangements to compete with his principal provided no unfair acts are committed or injury done his principal
• “A contract is construed as a whole, giving effect to all of the contract’s provisions and avoiding a construction which would render one of those provisions meaningless.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).