You are the human resources manager at a Portland Maine based company, called Acme Sales, Inc. ASI sells glass windows, doors, automobile windows, and custom-made glass to consumer and business clients. Your boss, the founder of the company, asks you to review a noncompete clause she has written for an agreement with a prospective sales person whose territory will be Cumberland and York counties and whose specialty is exclusively automotive glass sales. "Employee agrees that for the term of his employment with Acme Sales, Inc. ("ASI") and forever after, employee will not work for or sell any product manufactured and/or sold by a competitor of ASI in or within 10 miles of the counties of Cumberland and York, Maine." Does the clause meet the requirements of the Maine 2019 Noncompete statute? If not, how? [Is it narrowly written or overly broad? What could be done to make the contract clause more likely to be enforced?]

Maine 2019 Statute Limiting Noncompete Agreements

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