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Protecting Trade Secrets: Lessons Learned From the Levandowski Case

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Companies often consider trade secrets to be their crown jewels. But in the digital age, where copying and sending files is as easy as one click, protecting trade secrets has become even more challenging. Losing control over...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Self-Driving to Federal Prison: The Trade Secret Theft Saga of Anthony Levandowski Continues

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The much-ballyhooed legal battle over trade secrets concerning self-driving automobile technology involving Uber took its latest (and perhaps final) turn last week, when engineer Anthony Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Key Developments in the Prosecutions for Leaks by Government Personnel of SARs Related to Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Richard...

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Note to Government Personnel: Don’t Disclose SARs - This week, major developments unfolded in the cases against two former federal government employees for their respective roles in disclosing Suspicious Activity Reports...more

The Volkov Law Group

Bumble Bee CEO Convicted of Participating in Price-Fixing Conspiracy

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Global companies are paying greater attention to criminal antitrust risks – and with good reason.  We often dwell on the impact to a company of a major FCPA investigation.  A global criminal antitrust investigation often in...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Southern District of New York Vacates Insider Trading Guilty Plea Based on Insufficient Personal Benefit Evidence Under United...

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On June 21, 2019, in United States v. Lee, Judge Paul G. Gardephe of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order vacating the guilty plea of a former investment portfolio analyst, Richard...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Partially Settles “Portfolio Manager” Insider Trading Case

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The SEC partially settled what is perhaps one of its more unusual insider trading cases. It involved defendants who posed as portfolio managers who then induced investment bankers to entrust them which inside information that...more

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Former Cardinals Scouting Director Pleads Guilty to Hacking Astros’ Computer Systems

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Economic espionage and computer hacking can touch all industries and business types. Computer hacking is a federal crime, and federal prosecutors are aggressively targeting cases involving the unauthorized access of a...more

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