An employee quit and took clients with them. Is that legal in Colorado?

Posted January 13, 2026 in Media

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Occasionally we have u clients who call into the office who have employees that work for them and the employee will quit, stage some kind of a coup and take employees or uh clients with them after they quit the company. And the question is is that legal? Are they allowed to do that? Well, the answer boils down to a couple of things. Number one, did you have some type of an employment contract with that employee? Did it include non-solicitation provisions? Did it include non-compete provisions? If it

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did, were those provisions themselves updated and legal according to newer statutes in Colorado? That’s the first question. The second question is is what exactly did they do and how did they do it? So once we start analyzing that situation as a law firm, we can then s sort of get to the point of okay, is there anything we can do to enforce that agreement to stop them from doing what they’re doing to cease and desist or are there liquidated damages or other types of damages we can pursue against them to

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make you Mhm.

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