Post-Employment Restrictive Covenants – Illinois Law Basics

In Northwest Podiatry Center, Ltd. v. Ochwat (2013 IL App (1st) 120458), the First District reversed key elements of a trial court’s preliminary injunction order in a lawsuit filed by a podiatry center against two former doctor employees.  The plaintiffs – the podiatry firm and its founder – sued two former podiatrists who left to form a competing firm and …