The rise in employee mobility, computer use, portable thumb drives and raiding of competitor talent has made it more difficult than ever to safeguard confidential information. The following are common scenarios:
We represent defendants and plaintiffs in unfair competition claims. We have successfully handled trade secret claims involving manufacturing processes, biological life, software, customer lists, equipment design, and financial transactions. We are skilled in matters involving confidential information, noncompete agreements, nonsolicitation agreement, the "inevitable disclosure" doctrine, unjust enrichment and other business torts involving unfair competition.
We help clients formulate and implement practical controls to ensure that incoming and outgoing employees abide by their post-employment obligations. We also work with corporations on trade secret matters associated with mergers and acquisitions, financings, outsourcing transactions and technology licensing.
We have devised innovative trade secret protection programs. We draw upon our excellence in human resources, workplace privacy, modern workplace technology and forensics to achieve excellent results for our clients. We keep our clients abreast of current best practices for safeguarding confidential information while respecting employee rights.
We have advised departing employees on their noncompete and nonsolicitation obligations and represented them against claims of violations. And we also write noncompete and nonsolicitation enforcement letters on behalf of companies.
We represent plaintiffs and defendants, as well as employees and employers in cases involving claims of breach of duty of loyalty, unfair competition, theft of trade secrets, unjust enrichment theft of confidential information, conversion or other business torts in court, mediation or in arbitration. We have successfully defended companies in the publishing, biotechnology, banking and computer software fields.