Business

Atticus Gould

1 March, 02:09

Judith works as an office assistant at the Octan consulting firm. Octan assists clients within a five-mile radius of its office. Octan's clients prefer privacy, so its client list was compiled over time through private sources. Octan also has a unique manual of consulting techniques, which it keeps secret through numerous safeguards. Judith's employment contract has a noncompete clause that prohibits her from working for a consulting company within a 5-mile radius for 5 years after she leaves Octan. It also prohibits Judith from using the client list and the manual of consulting techniques. Judith leaves Octan, and a year later, she takes a job at a competing consulting company that is about 4 miles away from Octan. Which prohibition in the noncompete covenant is a court least likely to enforce?