Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenants

Our partners have unrivaled experience protecting legitimate business interests and innovation across the country both in and out of the courtroom. We have successfully represented corporations and individuals at every stage of trade secret and employee mobility litigation, and have won the race to the courthouse when necessary to halt the actual or threatened theft of intellectual property or defend the right to compete fairly and put talented employees to work. We have defeated improvident requests for injunctive relief, achieved declaratory relief protecting our clients’ fundamental right to earn a living, and helped innovators defend against the anti-competitive practices of their disgruntled former employers who seek to impede fair competition through bogus trade secret allegations.

Our attorneys are also often able to bring their wealth of experience to bear in helping to formulate reasonable settlement strategies short of litigation. Our partners have a record of success in this area having handled more than one hundred matters involving the theft of trade secrets, solicitation of customers and employees, usurpation of corporation opportunities and duty of loyalty claims, breach of fiduciary duty, and interference with business relationships. We have, more recently, prosecuted and defended claims under the emerging federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

We also counsel our clients on trade secret protection programs, including the use of non-disclosure, inventions assignment, and restrictive covenant agreements, to help them protect their proprietary information and preserve fair competition to the fullest extent permitted by laws which vary significantly across the jurisdictions where our attorneys practice. On the flip side, we have represented a number of executives who require guidance on the enforceability and interpretation of agreements signed with their current and former employers.

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