I've had lawyers in Georgia tell me a non-compete has no teeth under GA law. You still might get sued, but apparently, the law leans heavily towards the employee.
Intellectual property and trade secrets are however well protected for the employer.
That's the case in most jurisdictions; judges will tend not to interpret contracts in ways that preclude individuals from earning a living. In a lot of states, judges also have the authority to modify noncompetes on the fly, so that they aren't confronted with the choice of screwing a former employee and throwing out an entire contract term wholesale.
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I've had lawyers in Georgia tell me a non-compete has no teeth under GA law. You still might get sued, but apparently, the law leans heavily towards the employee.
Intellectual property and trade secrets are however well protected for the employer.
That's the case in most jurisdictions; judges will tend not to interpret contracts in ways that preclude individuals from earning a living. In a lot of states, judges also have the authority to modify noncompetes on the fly, so that they aren't confronted with the choice of screwing a former employee and throwing out an entire contract term wholesale.