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Look Out for LinkedIn: Top Questions for Employers on How the Platform Impacts Your Workplace

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LinkedIn has become a key part of the business world for workers and employers alike. The platform can aid your recruitment efforts, company branding, and business development. But the world’s largest professional networking...more

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2020 Update: Can your social media (e.g., LinkedIn) contacts be your employer’s trade secret?

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Employers and employees alike use social media to promote and define their businesses and themselves in the digital space. From personal connections on Facebook, to professional marketing on LinkedIn, these connections on...more

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Protecting Social Media Contact Lists as Trade Secrets

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Social media contact lists have become an increasingly important part of a business’s customer lists. While courts are still grappling with who legally “owns” the data that the employee acquired on the employer’s dime—such...more

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Don’t Let Technology Run Away With Your Customer Information

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For many companies, customer information ranks among its most important assets. Yet these days, employees often keep this sensitive customer information in electronic locations that are not readily accessible to or controlled...more

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Don’t Friend My Friends: Nonsolicitation Agreements Should Account for Social Media Strategies

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As social media becomes an important part of many companies’ sales and branding strategies, issues relating to companies’ ability to protect their investments in such strategies are emerging. Indeed, this blog has previously...more

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Aspects of Private Social Media Groups May Be Protectable Under Illinois Trade Secret Law

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In Illinois federal court, a plaintiff alleged aspects of their LinkedIn group were trade secrets misappropriated by the defendant. The defendant moved to dismiss for failure to state a claim. The court denied the motion in...more

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Social Media in the Context of Post-Employment Litigation

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At the frontier of post-employment litigation is the issue of how to address social media contacts and communications. To date, while courts in other jurisdictions, such as California and Colorado, have passed on such...more

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Can your social media contacts be a trade secret of your employer? Maybe.

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This is a relatively new legal subject, so there isn’t much law out there.  In December, 2011, a Pennsylvania federal court answered this question in the negative.  In the case of Eagle v. Morgan, Linda Eagle, the founder of...more

McAfee & Taft

Secret Connections: LinkedIn contacts may be a trade secret

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A California court recently determined that an employee’s LinkedIn contacts could be considered a “trade secret” in a case where the employee retained his contacts after he left the company and began a competing venture....more

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Ownership of Business-Related Social Media Accounts

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Social media platforms have become an increasingly important means for companies to build and manage their brands and to interact with their customers, in many cases eclipsing companies’ traditional “.com” websites. Social...more

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Trade Secret Litigation Over Social Media: Is It Worth The Cost?

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With the continually increasing popularity of social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, where members can be connected to friends, family members, co-workers, clients, and potential clients all by logging in...more

Fisher Phillips

Labor Letter, July 2013: Social Media And Trade Secrets

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Most employers are well aware of the various implications that the social media explosion has on the workplace. The various issues created by Facebook, LinkedIn, and other similar platforms lead to constant requests for...more

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Polsinelli Podcast - Social Media at Work - What's Allowed and What Isn't?

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Social media at work: What's allowed and what isn't? Facebook and LinkedIn are eradicating the carefully crafted compartments that generations have relied upon in leading their lives. Denver attorney Sean Gallagher shares how...more

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Social Networking Contacts Could Be Trade Secrets

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Like it or not, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media is playing a larger role in our everyday business lives. Nowadays, many companies are using social networking to maintain their client list and further...more

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