Paula Lopez, August 7, 2015. In Brown & Brown v. Johnson, the New York Court of Appeals (New York’s highest court) rejected a choice of law provision contained in an employment agreement that designated Florida law as the law governing the agreement because it found that Florida’s employer-friendly approach in enforcing employment-related restrictive covenants is contrary to New York’s public policy.  A choice of law provision in an agreement allows parties to agree that a particular state’s laws will be used to interpret the agreement regardless of where…