Federal Judge Rejects Alliantgroup Claims That Former Salesman Disclosed Secrets

A federal district court in Texas March 24 rejected the tax consulting firm Alliantgroup LP’s claim that a former salesman violated the noncompete and nondisclosure provisions of his employment agreement when he accepted a job at a competing tax consulting firm (Alliantgroup LP v. Feingold).

Texas-based Alliantgroup had received a preliminary injunction from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to prevent its former employee, Jeffrey Feingold, from providing services to or soliciting his former clients while at his new employer Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. (KLR). While at Alliantgroup, Feingold had marketed studies that ...