Global insurance brokers Arthur J. Gallagher is suing two former employees who left to start their own New York brokerage firm for allegedly soliciting Gallagher clients and using confidential information in violation of their employment agreements. Gallagher claims that James Baranello and Joseph Siringo have violated agreements to not solicit or accept business from the Gallagher customers they serviced at Gallagher for two years after leaving the firm and they also agreed not to use or disclose Gallagher confidential information for their own use, or the use of another. Gallagher claims that before resigning the two solicited a very large unnamed client they serviced while at Gallagher, a client representing 70% of the total book of business they were responsible for at Gallagher. Gallagher claims the two have since also diverted other clients including a plumbing company, an electric company and a construction contracting firm that account for more than $50,000 in recurring revenue to Gallagher. However, “there is a right way to resign, and a wrong way,” Gallagher asserts while maintaining that its post-employment restrictions are reasonable.