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: Delaware Business Litigation ReportCourt of Chancery Delineates Employee Duties in Case of First Impression
By Morris James LLP
While it is well known that directors and officers have fiduciary duties, what about employees who are neither a director nor an officer? This decision addresses that issue. While the decision goes into a detailed analysis, in general, even a non-essential employee may have a fiduciary duty to her employer as an agent of the employer. That duty then would require the employee to disclose certain conflicts of interest and to not compete with her employer.
This decision also has an excellent discussion of how to calculate lost profits in a business tort case.
Full post as published by Delaware Business Litigation Report on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).
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