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Jonathan Gartner is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Employment Litigation & Arbitration Group.

Jonathan earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as a teaching assistant for “Sports and the Law” and President of the Jewish Law Students Association.  He received his B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations.

Prior to joining Proskauer, Jonathan clerked for the Honorable Renée Marie Bumb of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and worked as an associate in the employment litigation practice group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

In a win for businesses that rely on restrictive covenants to protect their assets and investments, on January 29, 2024, the Delaware Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Chancery Court decision that invalidated a “forfeiture-for-competition” provision in Cantor Fitzgerald’s limited partnership agreement.

As we previously reported on this blog, last January the Chancery Court invalidated

After months of speculation and intense lobbying, New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have imposed a near-total ban on employee non-competition agreements in New York State.

Governor Hochul has long expressed her support for legislation banning non-compete agreements for “low and middle-income” employees, but generally balked at the idea of a