WASHINGTON SQUARE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND MENTAL HEALTH, INC. v. SPECINER


259 A.D.2d 368 (1999)

687 N.Y.S.2d 69

WASHINGTON SQUARE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND MENTAL HEALTH, INC., Respondent, v. CLAIRE SPECINER, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided March 18, 1999.


The restrictive covenant in issue, which merely prohibits defendant from treating patients introduced to her by plaintiff for a period of one year after termination of her employment, is reasonable as to time and location, and necessary to protect plaintiff's legitimate interest in safeguarding a patient list that clearly is not in the public domain (cf., Reed, Roberts Assocs. v Strauman, 40 N.Y.2d 303, 308). We also note, as did...

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