By Jen Rubin

Non-compete agreements are a common part of the business world these days. But just because you sign a non-compete agreement doesn’t mean your employer will enforce it (or try to enforce it) after you leave your current job. I’m an employment lawyer and one of the questions my individual clients ask me most frequently is not whether a non-compete agreement is enforceable (which is typically a fairly complex legal question to answer) but whether the former employer will try to enforce it.