Trade Secret & Non-Compete Law

Our attorneys assist businesses in drafting and reviewing agreements designed to protect trade secrets and confidential and proprietary business information. They also identify vulnerabilities in employers’ confidentiality, non-solicitation, and non-competition agreements, and related employment practices. They then recommend corrective practices that may enhance the enforcement of these agreements and preserve the intellectual capital of knowledge-driven enterprises.

Our attorneys also litigate trade secret and unfair competition cases bringing affirmative litigation to prevent unfair competition or the theft of trade secrets.

Representative client industries include:

• Bio-medical and clinical research
• Genetic agriculture
• Healthcare delivery
• High technology manufacturing
• Intellectual property
• Pharmaceutical marketing
• Publishing
• Securities
• Software development and information technology
   

Our Trade Secret & Non-Compete Law Group provides litigation, compliance, and consulting services to businesses facing trade secret and unfair competition issues:

• Drafting employment policies for the protection of trade secret and confidential business information.
• Drafting confidentiality, non-solicitation, and non-competition agreements.
• Advising businesses regarding the enforceability of confidentiality, non-solicitation, and non-competition agreements.
• Developing strategies to address the hiring and firing of individuals possessing trade secret and confidential business information whether or not subject to confidentiality, non-solicitation, and/or non-competition agreements.
• Seeking injunctive relief to prevent the theft or threatened theft of trade secrets, and the breach of confidentiality, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements, and monetary damages to compensate clients for the misappropriation of their trade secrets.
• Defending clients against unfair competition and theft of trade secret claims and suits in federal and state courts.