Legal Question in Business Law in Maryland

Re: Unsigned contract

If the temp is no longer associated with the temp agency, I see no recourse on its part. If he is still accepting assignments through that agency, you ought to determine whether his arrangement with them allows him to seek direct employment without entitling them to a placement fee. If not, you may be exposing your company to a claim from them. But given the passage of time, most likely you're OK with this.

Re: Unsigned contract

The issue of concern would be that you somehow interfere with existing contractual obligations between the temp and the agency. If the temp is still under obligations with the agency, that may place you at some risk if there is any way the agency can say that you knew about the temps obligations and induced him/her to breach her contract and come and work for you.

If the temp is not working for the agency any more and if any significant amount of time has passed, you're probably ok from two perspectives: first, there are probably no further contractual obligations on the temp's part; and the issue may just not arise as a practical matter because the agency won't have any reason to know about it.

Good luck.