JEANNE FUGATE
Partner
King & Spalding
Jeanne Fugate is a go-to partner on employee mobility issues, from drafting enforceable employment agreements, to advising clients on appropriate on-boarding and off-boarding practices, to litigating any disputes that may arise from the termination of an employer/employee relationship. In order to litigate employee mobility claims, lawyers are often called upon to respond quickly to demand letters and to immediately move to draft and/or defend against requests for TROs and preliminary injunctions.
Fugate’s successes in these matters includes representing financial technology company Sidetrade as a defendant in a suit by competitor HighRadius, which sued two former employees and Sidetrade, their new employer, claiming those employees were violating their post-employment restrictive covenants. After weeks of litigation and discovery and a full evidentiary hearing, the court denied HighRadius’ request for a temporary injunction, refused to enforce one employee’s non-compete, and only required that the other employee’s non-compete be enforced for five days.
