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Magaly Zagal represents a variety of clients before the California Legislature, Administration, and Departments including biopharmaceutical, provider health care industry, auto manufacturers, education administrators and non-profit organizations. Magaly leverages her experience in health care law and government relations to offer clients effective representation while balancing legal and political implications.

California generally takes an unfavorable view of noncompete provisions, treating them as unenforceable in all but a few limited circumstances, as those familiar with California employment law know. See, e.g., Business and Professions Code 16600 and Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP (2008) 44 Cal.4th 937.

Now, if recently introduced legislation finds support, those exceptions may…