This Law Firm Publication by Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C. discusses Bankers Life v. American Senior Benefits, in which an Illinois Appellate Court held that an individual's LinkedIn "connection" requests to his former coworkers did not violate his non-solicitation agreement. The court evaluated the content of the request rather than the medium, and noted that the requests were merely intended for connection on the social media site and did not discuss Bankers Life or the individual's new employer. The court found that the requests were not direct efforts to recruit the former workers to join the new employer.