There&#x27;s some confusing language in the article that might make you think that she worked at Reuters (the new employer) for a long time. In fact she was only there for a few weeks:<p><i>... who Thomson Reuters fired within weeks after hiring her in September</i><p>The bit that confuses it is this:<p><i>I also later found out that every editor in my section at Reuters had been well aware of the non-compete for years</i><p>What I think she&#x27;s saying is that the editors at her new employer were well aware (and had been &quot;for years&quot;) that Law360 (her old employer) used these non-competes, and (by implication) that she&#x27;d be subject to one.<p>It gives the impression that she <i>worked there</i> for years, but that seems to just be an unintended consequence of the phrasing.