If an employment agreement prohibits an ex-employee from recruiting personnel from his or her former employer, can that employee invite his or her former colleagues to connect via LinkedIn? In a recent decision (albeit an unpublished one that generally may not be cited as precedent), an Illinois court held that sending invitations for LinkedIn connections did not violate a contractual prohibition against soliciting employees away from a former employer. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. American Senior Benefits LLC, 2017 IL App (1st) 160687-U (June 26, 2017).
