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[Music] hi my name is lauren ellerman and i'm an attorney in roanoke virginia serving all of western virginia today i'm answering a question that we get a lot when i look at our google analytics search term results and the question is how should i respond to a cease and desist letter well there are many types of c synthesis letters but i will explain our advice in an employment context so if you were an employee a company xyz and you left company xyz and joined company abc and received a cease and desist letter in the mail under virginia law what you what should you do and i know this sounds a little trite coming from an attorney but the best advice i can give when you get a cease and desist letter is to call an attorney and the reason is the following sometimes cease and desist letters are full of inaccurate incomplete um un fair assessments of the law and your duties under the law but many times and most of the time they are not most of the time a cease and desist letter accurately reflects the law in the state where you were an employee the duties that you may have had either under the common law or under a contract and oftentimes a cease and desist letter will express exactly what will happen next if you ignore the cease and desist letter not always it's not a binding legal document it's more like a warning and in this case i think the reason i advise people to immediately get an attorney once they've got a cease and desist letter is that it will save them time and money in the long run to address the warning head on and the way our firm approaches it and we represent 99 of employees we don't do a lot of corporate work but when we represent employees what we typically do is a fast analysis of did you breach your contract did you violate the common law are you in an ongoing manner violating any of your legal duties and we advise the client immediately hey you kind of have to stop doing this because of your contract or because of the law or because of some kind of violation that you have committed and if you continue to commit that violation your damages will go up your attorney's fees will go up and you can lose your job so while we are litigators while we enjoy the courtroom that is part of what we do and what our training is the best advice we can often give someone is to keep them out of the courtroom in an employment litigation context so if you do get a cease and desist letter call a lawyer in the state where your company is is licensed in doing business because that's the state attorney who will know the law and will know how to respond so if you're an employee in north carolina but you are employed by a virginia company and you get a cease and desist letter from a virginia attorney who represents your xyz virginia company we recommend hiring a virginia attorney even though you may live and work in north carolina so in general when you get a cease and desist letter take it seriously call a lawyer find out what your rights and restrictions are and probably they can save you a hunk of time and money if you call them in the beginning if you wait and ignore the cease and desist and you do get filed with a lawsuit it's a lot harder to find an attorney when you have litigation deadlines than simply a cease and desist letter on your desk hope this was helpful please let us know if we can help thanks [Music]