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JONES DAY PRESENTS®: Employer Options in a Non-Noncompete World
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Trade Secret Litigation: The Power of Protection
#WorkforceWednesday: Bracket-Busting Trade Secret and Non-Compete Disputes in Sports - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
California Employment News: Top Developments in Wage and Hour Law for 2024 (Podcast)
California Employment News: Top Developments in Wage and Hour Law for 2024
#WorkforceWednesday: Latest Developments – Restrictive Covenants in the Health Care Industry - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 6: Digital Forensics & Protecting Trade Secrets with Clark Walton
#WorkforceWednesday: Invention Ownership - Why the Tense Matters in Employee IP Provisions - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: Non-Compete Law Update – Key Developments from 2023 - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
The FBI on Economic Espionage
#WorkforceWednesday: Restrictive Covenants Around the World - Challenges for Multinational Employers - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: Non-Compete Agreements in 2023: What Employers Need to Know - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: Attention Employers - How to Protect Trade Secrets in California - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: When a Restrictive Covenant Dispute Goes Beyond the Injunction Phase - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Earlier this year, Seyfarth Shaw partnered to issue the 2022 Future Employer survey to clients and contacts. We surveyed in-house legal and business leaders to find out how they are thinking about the “Future of Work.” This...more
It is no hidden secret that many employers use various restrictive covenants to protect their trade secrets, confidential information, goodwill, and customer relationships. For example, employers often use non-compete...more
A storm is brewing in the intellectual property world, and it’s heading straight for trade secrets. With millions of Americans quitting their jobs each month — 4.3 million in December alone — and pandemic-stunned...more
In the past decade, the prevalence of videoconferencing, social media, and other technological platforms have flooded college dorm rooms and boardroom meetings alike. The ubiquity of these technologies is unavoidable, and...more
Within the last year millions of employees find themselves working from home for the first time. With the sudden shift to working from home, companies are facing new and unique challenges in order to protect trade secrets and...more
The COVID-19 remote work era is now in its tenth month, and employees continue to work away from the physical office, without in-person supervision, and perhaps outside of the company network. During this time, many employees...more
2020 brought with it a bevy of new challenges for companies of all sizes in every industry, not the least of which was protecting trade secrets and confidential information in the face of newly remote workforces. 2021 brings...more
Now entering its ninth month in the United States with no sign of slowing down, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many employers to make permanent changes to business operations in order to survive. Among the most noticeable...more
COVID-19 has not only created a plethora of workplace safety, accommodation, and leave issues, it has also created new employee mobility challenges for employers: - How can employers maintain the “trade secret” status of...more
In late March, our Research and Operations team looked into practice areas that will not only continue at the same pace during the pandemic, but potentially thrive. One of these was trade secret matters, which our research...more
In a recent decision, the Delaware Court of Chancery noted that a plaintiff-franchisor did not take adequate protections to safeguard the confidentiality of its purported trade secrets while using a remote audiovisual...more
It seems everything in the world right now somehow revolves around COVID-19. Stay-at-home orders; the debate over students returning to the classroom; “essential” versus “non-essential” workers; college and professional...more
Companies across the United States quickly rolled out remote work arrangements in response to the COVID-19 health crisis, and as virus caseloads continue to climb, the trend is likely to continue. As working off-site becomes...more
As more and more American workers are logging into their jobs remotely, many employers have been forced to enact teleworking policies on a massive scale. Some of these work-from-home policies may have been implemented in a...more
An economic downturn usually leads to a rise in trade secret theft and litigation, and conditions are ripe for a major surge in cases from the current slump, given widespread job losses and companies’ embrace of remote...more
Now that your employees may be coming back to work in the office, what legal steps should you take to ensure that your company’s confidential information or trade secrets remain protected? Come prepared with questions. We...more
Social distancing, a term which few of us had heard of before this year (despite the fact that it has been used since at least the early 2000s), is stretching into its third month....more
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, some parts of the country are now in the third month of a lockdown. As a result of the lockdown, a large portion of U.S. businesses quickly transitioned their workforces to telework in...more
As businesses consider how to transition to a "new normal," a thorough review of intellectual property (IP) assets and a protocol for managing those assets should be part of the planning process. For many companies, the...more
On April 14, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom outlined the six “critical indicators” the state will monitor during the next phase of its COVID-19 response as it considers when to modify its statewide shelter-in-place...more
Over the last few months, the widespread transmission of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19 or the “coronavirus”) has prompted immediate action from employers and businesses throughout the United States. As of...more
One of the first things a company should do when it suspects that its trade secrets have been compromised or that an employee has violated post-employment restrictive covenants is to conduct an investigation. ...more
The coronavirus pandemic has created profound changes to how many Americans do their work, with an outsized number now working from home. This arrangement, while necessary given social distancing requirements and the...more