I think I left an illegal one in that was non-applicable just as insurance if I missed something else.

If you did that, you wasted your time. One bad clause doesn't void a whole contract. And just to make sure, most boilerplate includes a clause that says something like, "... and if a clause is found to be invalid, that portion will be struck without voiding the rest of this document..." only in much deeper lawyerese.

Now the last place I worked was hyper-active about such things but when they got bought and then re-merged our old employee contracts and agreement were voided and the new ones were much less intrusive since they knew no one would work under those old nasty NDAs and Non-competes. They knew that because people in CA and NY and TX had started making the non-existence of those documents a requirement of their employment. I actually saw a Non-non-compete one guy had. =) Warmed my heart. Later, before they ever made us sign anything, they fired me and paid me extra to not come back or talk to anyone there about what I did or consult for them for a whole year. I told the boss that fired us all, "pay me a bit more and I'll never talk to you again, promise!"

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