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The Increased Use of Analytics in Sports Could Lead to a Rise in Employment and Trade Secret Lawsuits

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The recent lawsuit filed by the New York Knicks against a former employee, the Toronto Raptors’ parent organization, and the Raptors’ head coach, could be a harbinger of a rise in employment and trade secret litigation in...more

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Secrets Exposed: Trade Secrets, Trust, and a Multi-Million Dollar Lesson

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At the beginning of the pandemic, concerns were raised that trade secret misappropriation might take a new form. Indeed, with large swaths of the workforce working from home, spouses, roommates, or others living in the same...more

Venable LLP

Fourth Circuit Holds That Government Contractors Can Rely on Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty to Prevent Employees from Direct...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has found that employees can breach their duty of loyalty to their employers and tortiously interfere with a business expectancy by competing against their employer for the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

CBD Pain Cream Producer Feels the Pain from Dismissal of its Trade Secrets Claims for Lack of Misappropriation Evidence

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A federal magistrate judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, in a trade secrets dispute involving CBD-based pain cream, recently granted summary judgment in favor of all but one...more

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When is hiring a competitor’s employee ‘racketeering’?

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When hiring new employees – especially those who are currently employed or who recently have been employed by a competing company or organization – it’s always a best practice to ask them if they are subject to an employment...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

California Nixes Employee Non-Solicitation Restrictions

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Employers with California operations probably know that traditional noncompetition covenants are unenforceable in that state. Additional state court decisions concluded that customer non-solicitation prohibitions are also...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Non-Compete: Who is the Bad Actor?

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Against the backdrop of a continuing trend of low rates of unemployment throughout the United States, there has been a recent surge of people searching for new and better jobs. As a result, there has also been increased...more

Verrill

Take That Down: Recent Lawsuit on Negative Reviews

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“Beer: The cause and solution to all of life’s problems.” Mr. Homer J. Simpson would love the recent case of a Massachusetts craft beer company that has been trying in federal court to get the employment website Glassdoor...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

KitNipBox Sues Meowbox for Allegedly Hacking Website and Stealing Trade Secrets

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Cat product service provider KitNipBox sued rival Meowbox in federal court in Washington alleging that Meowbox hacked into KitNipBox’s website to steal its trade secrets and confidential information and to disrupt its...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Texas Court Holds That Law Firm is Immune From Liability to Claims by Non-Client

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Highland Capital Management, LP v. Looper Reed & McGraw, P.C., 2016 WL 164528 (Tex. App. Jan. 14, 2016) Brief Summary - The Texas Court of Appeals held that the doctrine of attorney immunity barred an employer's...more

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Seeking Injunctive Relief: How Irreparable Harm Has Been Analyzed in Federal and State Courts

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One of the most important considerations New Jersey practitioners encounter when seeking injunctive relief is where to file: state (Chancery Division) versus federal (district) court. In non-emergent complex litigation, this...more

Brooks Pierce

An Interesting Trade Secrets Case From The Business Court

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If you were unsure whether customer information held by your client -- like customer contact information, sales reports, prices and terms books, sales memos, sales training manuals, commission reports, and vendor information...more

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