He has regularly applied for and successfully obtained urgent injunctions (often at extremely short notice) to protect a client's
position against former employees, directors and connected parties from soliciting of customers,... more
Mario Batali is stepping away from his vast food empire and his co-hosting
position on ABC's «The Chew» after at least three
former female
employees and one female chef have come forward with sexual misconduct allegations
against him.
The duty to «act reasonably», in seeking and accepting alternate employment, can not be a duty to take such steps as will reduce the claim
against the defaulting
former employer, but must be a duty to take such steps as a reasonable person in the dismissed
employee's
position would take in his own interests — to maintain his income and his
position in his industry, trade or profession.