One World Networks Integrated Technologies, Inc. v. Duitch

Opinion

VOGEL (MIRIAM A.), J.

An executive who left her job to work for a competing firm was sued by her former employer for breach of contract, and she and her new employer were sued on various unfair competition theories. The executive, in turn, initiated an arbitration to resolve a salary dispute with her former employer, and the former employer counterclaimed against the executive in the arbitration proceedings. After the arbitrator ruled that the former employer’s counterclaims were covered by the arbitration agreement executed by the executive and her former employer, the former employer…