Misappropriation, Data Security, Former Employee

Protecting Trade Secrets in the Life Sciences Industry: 8 Steps to Prevent Corporate Espionage and Theft

Fisher Phillips on 4/23/2025

Protecting trade secrets in any business is critical, but the stakes are higher in life sciences. Given the high focus on innovation in the industry, corporate espionage can result in devastating financial and reputational...more

Departing Employees, Data Theft, and Digital Forensics

Association of Certified E-Discovery... on 8/25/2020

In late 2019, it was reported by Infosecurity Magazine that 72% of former employees admitted taking company data with them upon departure. Determining what actions a former employee took on a company device leading up to...more

Authorized Access of Proprietary Information and Impact on CFAA Claim

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/29/2019

Employers continuously face a key employee or consultant leaving or separating from the company to join or start a competing business. In these inevitable scenarios, the loss – potential or actual – of the company's...more

Tennessee District Court Deepens The “Without Authorization” Divide Under The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act

Fox Rothschild LLP on 6/14/2019

A Tennessee District Court recently ruled in Wachter Inc. v. Cabling Innovations, LLC, 3:18-cv-00488 (W.D. Tenn. May 7, 2019) that two former employees with permitted access to company computers were not liable under the...more

District Court Finds No CFAA Violation Where Employee Shares Confidential Company Information With Competitor

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/23/2019

A district court in Tennessee recently concluded in Wachter Inc. v. Cabling Innovations LLC that two former employees who allegedly shared confidential company information found on the company’s computer system with a...more

Spring Cleaning: Tidying Up Your “Reasonable Efforts” to Maintain Trade Secrets

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group on 4/29/2019

It’s among an in-house counsel’s worst nightmares. A former business partner, ex-employee, consultant, or competitor has stolen your company’s trade secret information. Company management demands swift action....more

Court Allows Company to Surreptitiously Monitor Former Employee’s Social Media Account to Support its Trade Secrets Claim

Butler Snow LLP on 4/23/2019

A federal court of appeals recently found that there was nothing wrong with a company monitoring a departed employee’s Facebook account and using that information to pursue a trade secrets claim against four former employees....more

Misappropriation › Data Security › Former Employee

Protecting Trade Secrets in the Life Sciences Industry: 8 Steps to Prevent Corporate Espionage and Theft

Departing Employees, Data Theft, and Digital Forensics

Authorized Access of Proprietary Information and Impact on CFAA Claim

Tennessee District Court Deepens The “Without Authorization” Divide Under The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act

District Court Finds No CFAA Violation Where Employee Shares Confidential Company Information With Competitor

Spring Cleaning: Tidying Up Your “Reasonable Efforts” to Maintain Trade Secrets

Court Allows Company to Surreptitiously Monitor Former Employee’s Social Media Account to Support its Trade Secrets Claim

Ninth Circuit Vastly Expands Scope of Criminal, Civil Liability for Computer Fraud

Will The CFAA, An Old Anti-Hacking Law, Apply To Password Sharing?

Reducing Your Company’s Exposure to Trade Secret Litigation when Key Employees Come and Go

Misappropriation › Data Security › Former Employee

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