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The world of non compete agreements in Massachusetts is a complicated one to be sure. This is because they are largely disfavored in the law for the reasons that they unfairly restraint persons into contractual relationships and are anathema to the right of an individual to be free to work where his or her talents take him or her. But non compete agreements in Massachusetts are also valid, enforceable and hold the potential for great ‘good’ to the individuals that use them and to society.

We can think of non compete agreements as a way for human societies to exercise their rights of self protection because we have created them and allowed them to spread throughout our various social structures.

But what would non compete agreements mean if an alien civilization was asked to evaluate them? Indeed, what if an alien civilization that had not yet developed concepts of contract or property arrived on earth and was asked to evaluate these contracts and their enforcement from its own legal and cultural framework?

In order to understand how an alien intelligence might approach the issue of non compete agreements it would be useful to consider the following: 1. What are contracts and why do we have them? 2. How do aliens establish laws? Are there concepts of property and agreement amongst aliens? 3. Alien laws could be natural laws based upon physical properties, or not. Would the cultural “laws” of an alien civilization be considered binding by the alien society. 4. The consequences of strict enforcement of a non compete agreement or of what would be a non compete agreement in an alien society. Would the aliens seek to aggressively enforce all validity contracts or allow the strength of the most powerful alien to determine their legitimacy? 5. Cultural significance of individual competitiveness to alien society. Would an alien civilization see value in allowing individuals to compete against each other? Or, would it see this concept as a misnomer intended to belabor the weak and be at odds with group cohesion and strength? 6. The significance of value placed on those who can create and establish artifice in comparison to those who can take artifice and use it effectively. Would aliens be more willing to grant strong value to an intelligent beings ability to redesign and improve a system, or would they place high value on those who could use such systems effectively? 7. Alternative styles of alien law (based on Hebrew, Roman or Egyptian law) could be evaluated as different evolutionary tracks for the origin of alien law. 8. Would the aliens be likely to adopt human law and in what way? 9. Would the aliens be likely to establish a new set of right and wrong based upon their own cultural memory and tradition? 10. Would aliens be likely to influence the development of human law and how would that effect law and individual rights in Massachusetts and in America.

For more information on the complexities of non compete agreements, you can visit the Wikipedia page on non-compete clauses.

This week’s iCollege theme is to analyze culture using an alien intelligence or species. In that spirit, a well-known definition of business law and the legal environment is a set of enforced rules that regulate commercial relationships. Surely, if aliens were to interpret our meaning of “business law,” their researchers would find it perplexing. So, how would aliens view what we call “California’s business regulations?” Would they be confused? California is a state rich with culture. California business law and legal environment stands out in the areas of regulation and taxation. Mainly, the unique aspects of California business law and legal environment revolve around how regulations and taxes can affect the average civilian versus how regulations and taxes affect business. If aliens were to be intrigued by what humans find intriguing about california business law and legal environment, they would want to know just what laws there are that regulate and tax businesses. Regulatory laws are laws that require certain things from businesses. For example, if a business sells its products over the internet, california businesses must collect sales tax and remit the collected tax to the state on a quarterly basis. They must also follow strict guidelines on how there product is advertised and packaged. Furthermore, they are required to hold permits and licenses to operate. Tax laws are exactly what they sound like. Tax laws lay out the requirements on how and when to pay taxes, as well as the types of taxes an entity is liable for. For example, if your business exceeds $500,000 in gross receipts, you are liable for the 1.5% franchise tax. However, you may jump into the 8.84% corporate income tax bracket if your business grows to $250,000,000 in gross receipts. In order get a better grip on what elements play into the laws that regulate and tax businesses, aliens would have to take a closer look at the basic economic structure of California. By definition, California is a term jurisdiction. A term jurisdiction is an area whose laws apply to all persons within the territory regardless of the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are physically located. For example, assuming no other facts, if a negative impact to a person’s business occurs, a California business will be subject to the laws and regulations in California even if the event which caused the negative impact occurred outside of California’s jurisdiction; this may happen if the party impacted by the event is actually located outside of California, or if that person may not have been physically present when the event occurred. Because of California’s reliance on term jurisdiction, many businesses are financially impacted by California laws because they are headquartered in California but may not bother with laws or regulations in California that might give them tax breaks or even allow them to operate. For example, experts say that if Google were headquartered in Delaware, it would have saved about $3.1 billion in taxes last year. And, although corporations are not allowed to operate under any other corporation’s name, a few states allow companies to register to do business under a name that may not reflect the actual business controllers and yet pass the benefit of doing business in that state onto those businesses. When measuring labor laws, aliens would be fascinated to know that California is one of only four states that require employers pay severance to employees who were laid off. Severance pay is calculated according to a panel of factors which consider expenditures directly related to losing employment as well as factors that may indirectly cause a loss of fortune, such as increased travel expenses. Of course, all these laws are regulated by the state and federal governments, so aliens would also have to take a look at California’s relationship with the rest of the union to get a true picture of what businesses are subject to. Many California business owners, for example, would be irritated to know that of the business tax credits available to them, California has some of the lowest monetary allowances when compared to what other states offer to their companies; this is the case even though a large number of California funded programs are larger than many other state programs targeted to stimulate business and job growth. Lastly, if the aliens were still puzzled by the uniquely complex nature of California business laws, they could consult with Why Are California Laws So Complicated? which provides simple explanations for what might seem like arcane and incomprehensible prose when viewed collectively. It’s only fitting that this article ends with the exploring the human’s own thoughts on how california business law and legal environment fits into the grand scheme of our time, when we are making strides toward interplanetary exploration and beyond: California has the most complete treatment of California laws pertaining to businesses. It provides examples and covers every aspect you may encounter in a business operation that spans various states and international borders.

As beings tasked with the duty of education, we have studied many civilizations. Among those which have sparked our interest is that of a technologically advanced species residing on planet coded as ‘Earth.’ Having observed the conceptual development of laws governing cyberbullying law california, it is apparent that to humans, these laws are an integral addition to the social structure.

In ‘Earthian’ society, there exist many cultures, each of which is significantly influenced by the circumstances of their specific environments. Consequentially, laws vary between member cultures of Earthian society, and in order to satisfy uniformity mandates, the laws of many cultures are utilized within the laws of the others.

One example of this is the implementation of cyberbullying law california, which was initiated with the purpose of preserving societal order amongst the human populous. Prior concepts of bullying were limited to physical altercations, however with the arrival of technology, new phenomena which could cause physical and emotional harm to members of each culture have emerged.

Bullying in its most basic form entails the power imbalance between those who intend to impose psychological or physical harm on a victim. Therefore, the concept of cyberbullying is essentially universal amongst all earthian cultures. Although constituents of each culture have attempted to define cyberbullying, explanations have proven unsatisfactory. Rather, the universal mechanics and effects of cyberbullying remain constant, while manifestations of the phenomenon vary as new technologies and stimuli emerge.

The creation of a cyberbullying system allows members of each culture to execute ‘online’ activity which may incidentally result in the psychological, emotional, and/or physical malfunction of a targeted individual. In many cases, victims later report experiencing depression, suicidal thoughts or actions, hypersensitivity, and self-harm. Accordingly, cyberbullying has manifested as an adverse factor affecting members of earthian society at large.

Eternal conflict between many of our species dictates the necessity for laws to govern order within affected societies. Although we condemn the act of ‘bullying’ in any form, it is in our nature to frequently criticize the earthian’s methodology of handling in-group and out-group violence.

Within the defined parameters of cyberbullying law california and across many cultures, punishment is administered to the cyberbully as if it were a tangible entity, rather than addressing the cause or genesis of the state of cyberbullying. As the earthian experience demonstrates with the repeated implementation of this law, when aggressors are unable to fulfill an innate need to bring harm to another species member, they will often lash out at the nearest source of stimulation. In many cases, they recreate the same state of heightened aggression.

There are, however, many aspects of the law which we commend. For example, cyberbully laws often impose a distracting task which the perpetrator must complete prior to release. By temporarily redirecting the source of stimulation, the enacted law allows the perpetrator to suspend their cycle of aggression or resistance.

Through analysis, we have determined that the ease in which one accesses technology via mobile devices makes these cyberbully laws particularly effective in intervening with the behavior of an instigator. However, an individual who is stable in their mental and emotional faculties will not engage in acts of cyberbullying. Therefore, although the law is effective in creating temporary cessation of behavior, the root cause has not been addressed.

It is our conclusion that the human culture would benefit more from initiatives which educate the population of the negative effects of cyberbullying, rather than focusing on penalizing the behavior. iCollege highlights the value of learning and understanding in building the foundation of values within a society. While the educational system would not directly intervene with the behavior, if implemented early on, the necessary humanistic values could slowly be instilled.

Through original case studies, our research team found that if taught the values of empathy and compassion at a young age, individuals are less likely to engage in behaviors which promote aggression. Thus, they are less inclined toward violating the laws created to impose order within the society. This is not to say that they would not remain capable of behaving in the sanctioned manner.

When cyberbullying laws are examined thoroughly, the behavioral ramifications that can manifest are alarming. In many cases, repeated implementation of the law has contributed to fatal outcomes for some individuals. Thus, we find it alarming that these laws are upheld by most earth cultures despite the fact that they maintain the cycle of aggression and continuous social conflict. Rather, earth cultures should focus on converting their laws from a system of punishment, into one of learning.

For more information on the impact of cyberbullying and related laws, you can visit StopBullying.gov.

Were an inquisitive alien intelligence to arrive on Earth and seek to understand the legalistic structures of human societies, it might start by exploring the concepts and effects of iCollege. Residing within iCollege would be the law enforcement code of ethics pdf, which would be a major clue to the human legal experience. What would aliens find when they explored this document? Firstly, the mere existence of laws and the pervasive and extensive nature of the concept of ethics and law would likely be a surprise for our aliens. It could be that, were they to experience human society, our extraterrestrial visitors would wonder if such structures existed on their own homeworld, and how their ethics and laws compared. Imagine what they would conclude if they were indeed surprised by plain old laws. What would our aliens think once they reviewed the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics PDF? For one thing, it might take an extraordinary amount of time to attempt to decode the symbols in the document. After all, humans lack a universal communication ability with other beings. As such, encounters with other life forms are documented, and certain universal symbols are eventually developed to help facilitate interactions and communication with other species.

Yet, laws, legal systems and the cultural concept of ethics as applied to law enforcement are both difficult to read and difficult to ‘decipher.’ A difficulty encountered by not only aliens, but any scholars attempting to study law and legal structures on Earth would be that humans have an entirely unique way of establishing ethics across many different facets of society. For the alien scholar, this uniqueness would make it difficult to equate our legal system with its own. In essence, law is largely based on ethics and accountability. Humans have a unique way of establishing individual and collective ethics, and rules by which order must be maintained, and each being should be held accountable for their actions. Both the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics PDF and its accompanying iCollege would likely be a benefit to the alien scholar seeking to research law, ethics and accountability.

Imagine what an alien scholar might think when comparing the first two articles of the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics PDF and iCollege with its own code of ethics or iCollege. The examples are rather stark, and these differences could be astounding to an alien civilization. To summarize: The first, however, are universal concepts across any society. It could be that an alien visiting the Institute of Cultural Learning would be perplexed by a concept of ethics that is not clearly defined according to universal principles. It could also be that the initial perception of planet Earth and its legal system would be little more than that of a tribal society. Yet, it could also be that laws and ethics are essentially the same across space, although this theory may not hold up. Depending on the experiences of the alien, it could also be that it finds solace in the existence of laws, societal structure and the concept of ethics.

Consider the following: What if each area of the iCollege had to be studied to gain a better understanding of the culture, legal structure and general characteristics of the society? This is what an alien visit to the Institute of Cultural Learning could be like. For more information on legal systems, you can visit Wikipedia’s page on Law.

What if we used a completely different standard for evaluating professional activities than we do now? What if we changed our parameters of measurement to those coming from an observer outside of human society? For example, how would a group of aliens made their way through human professional networks? How would they interact with it? What would they value? In this article, we will talk about how learning about different cultures, in this case extra-terrestrial cultures can prove to be beneficial for professionals, especially in recruitment.

Professional recruitment is all about personality and team fit. That means recruiters must have a profound understanding of the culture of the company they are trying to attract talent to (that is hiring companies in this case) as well as the general attitudes and types of personalities of the people in this hiring company. How would an alien make sense of all of this? By conducting research into the culture of humans, turning to the forces and values that drive humans to do what they do, aliens can come up with a framework for how they can affectively operate in the professional networking space. The way that businesses operate, companies differentiate themselves to stand out is by showing their unique personality, something that is not different in the professional design field where people are known for their innovations in design styles, signature dress code or trendy lifestyles. If aliens were to enter the professional design world, not only would they have to understand this culture, but they would have to understand how to differentiate themselves not only from designers, but from the other creatives who interact with designers on a daily basis, who I refer to as creative partners. This network is comprised of accountants, bookkeepers, legal professionals, marketing team members and administrative personnel. All of this requires to be done without disturbing the overall business operations of the company, or even the company across the street for that matter.

In our example, we explored how the alien would approach professional design. Similarly, when it comes to legal implementation within the American landscape, when it comes to recruitment of top talent in Dallas for legal professional purposes, what would be required? Just like above, the alien would have to figure out their role within the legal organization as a part of the recruitment network. They would also have to understand not only where their role fits in, but what types of legal professionals are required throughout the organization. Just like in design, the human who would be observing them, this alien would have to have a deep understanding of the legal profession, its nuances, its unspoken rules for success and how these vary from one company to another as well as organization to organization. iCollege highlights the importance of looking at things from a perspective other than that your own. Understanding how people, humans interact and what drives those interactions is key in integrating oneself within a new culture. For iCollege, this cultural understanding takes place through their unique method of learning, one that refers to itself as interactive, walkthrough. When looking at this from a position devoid of sentiment, they are not completely wrong. iCollege subscribes to the idea that they are not manual operators but more like storytellers, with interactive experiences akin to video games. This unique manner of integrating education with engagement can be likened to a similar revolution in recruitment procedures.

Dallas legal recruiters to hire are not only responsible for issuing the offer letter to the candidate, but also they are the first contact that the candidate has with the firm. That means that they are responsible for how the candidates perceive the firm and that means that their recruitment methods must have a high level of interactive engagement in order to attract top talent. For this reason, having a top legal recruiter from DFW on your side is crucial and their methods should mirror those of iCollege.

Perhaps the alien’s perspective would not be so far off. In fact, if we borrow from it, we might have a better approach towards understanding what it is that top legal recruiters in Dallas valued when searching for talent. We might better understand how this recruitment process actually works now. In some cases, Aliens have been said to analyze humans as part of a study, a throwback to the days of the freak shows of old when humans were seen as our greatest and lowest forms (think the representation of a freak show in American Horror Story). But how might we integrate this into the legal field? What would an alien, in examining the top legal recruiters in Dallas, look for? These aliens would be looking for rituals, for the functions within the organization and essentially, the levels of human engagement as dictated by rank. Because they do not know humans from Adam (which is not so bad, considering the disconnect we have with one another already), they would be able to look at things with an open mind. They would recognize that the society of humans involves different people migrating along the organizational spectrum. While the top legal recruiters in Dallas might be recognized for their diligent hard work, they would still not be recognized as owners within the firm, they would be neither upper-tier management nor would they be the creative minds that power innovation within the company or the participant analysts, and yet, their role would be no less important to the overall success of the firm. They work behind the scenes in order for the firm to stand out among potential hires and legal professionals to connect through human networks. While they might do the same job, the presentation of that job is what makes their roles distinct from one another.

Therefore, perhaps the alien’s perception is not far-fetched from reality. As a culture, the business world, especially the professional design world and this legal world, are in the midst of a paradigm shift from formal interview settings to interactive environments where employers and candidates engage one another and take a more casual approach to networking. While the top legal recruiters in Dallas likely already do this, integrating an interactive element into the recruitment process of law professionals can go a long way towards creating investment in the candidate from the hiring company. Since law firms, lawyers, legal professionals, etc., operate under a similar corporate culture as the outside world, human networks can be affected by the same forces and principles explored by aliens. Therefore, like the alien who off-puts its observations of human society to devise a strategy for how to operate in the networks that connect humans, we too must look at our networks from an outsider’s perspective, especially when it comes to recruitment.