Thomas Chase LLC

02/16/2022

Please join the Millburn-Short Hills Chamber of Commerce for a Zoom presentation about affordable housing in Town this Friday, February 18th, at 8:30 am. I am excited to present at the event about the past, present, and future of affordable housing in the Township. The event is free. Please register here!

Coffee with the Chamber is a monthly networking event for Chamber members and their guests to connect with each other. Each member will be able to introduce themselves and share information about their business and exchange business cards. Each month we will invite a speaker to give a short presenta...

01/25/2022

NFT's and blockchain explained, in two minutes...

NFT's and blockchain for Dummies . . . Put the technology aside for a second and focus on the purpose of NFT's and blockchain. NFT's and blockchain

11/13/2021

Two recent federal indictments should have lawyers re-thinking employee non-solicitation agreements…

Two recent federal indictments should have attorneys and courts re-thinking employee non-solicitation provisions. In U.S. v. Hee and U.S. v. Surgical

10/25/2021

California continues to push back against federal law enforcing arbitration agreements. Sometimes courts even agree with those efforts….

On September 15, 2021, a divided panel of the 9th Circuit reversed the District Court and upheld much of California’s ban on compulsory employment

09/01/2021

Millburn, New Jersey recently entered a settlement regarding its affordable housing obligations. This is the Town’s first significant action regarding affordable in the forty-six years since the NJ Supreme Court held that municipalities must allow development of their fair share of affordable housing. Here is my summary of this settlement….

Millburn Township recently entered an important settlement that ended litigation concerning Millburn’s affordable housing obligations. A copy of the

08/11/2021

Welcome to the Wild West of trade secret litigation!

https://www.tcesq.com/blog/dtsa-seizures-the-wild-west-of-trade-secret-law/

07/14/2021

Had a very interesting chat with Judge Levine about his memory of the BDO Seidman case. What a great public servant, glad to see he is still going strong!

I recently wrote about my fondness for BDO Seidman v. Hirshberg, the seminal 1999 decision by the New York Court of Appeals. See my last post here. I was

07/07/2021

https://www.tcesq.com/blog/my-all-time-favorite-case/

I represent executives transitioning employment, and many are subject to onerous restrictive covenants prohibiting solicitation of all clients. I have

05/26/2021

Many employment agreements contain restrictive covenants that will explode on impact. They fail reasonably to define an employee’s post-employment obligations. Consequently, the parties must engage in costly and time-consuming litigation so that a court may determine reasonable post-employment restrictions because the parties’ agreement failed properly to do that. Here is my mercenary take on this important issue…

I advise executives transitioning employment and therefore regularly review employment agreements. Many agreements are more akin to ticking time-bombs

05/20/2021

A recent controversy at Rutgers Law School focused on a student’s use of the “N word” when reading from a judicial opinion. The use of the term in judicial opinions has an interesting history, and the tipping point was the O.J. Simpson trial.

A Law School Controversy A Rutgers law student recently caused controversy by saying the "N" word while quoting from a 1993 New Jersey Supreme Court case

05/07/2021

The federal “Defend Trade Secrets Act” of 2016 created a powerful new seizure remedy. Courts have granted plaintiffs sweeping relief. Why aren’t more parties taking advantage of it??

Welcome to the Wild West of DTSA Trade Secret Seizure Litigation The federal “Defend Trade Secrets Act” of 2016 (the “DTSA”) gives plaintiffs a powerful

04/22/2021

NYC litigators need to understand how the City’s Freelance Isn’t Free Act affects hiring of expert witnesses.

NYC litigators need to understand the significant impact that the City’s “Freelance Isn’t Free Act” (“FIFA”) has on hiring expert witnesses. FIFA Makes a