Weinrich, Neal

Neal Weinrich knows trade secrets and restrictive covenants inside and out. A shareholder at Berman Fink Van Horn, Neal counsels clients in all industries on matters involving trade secrets, noncompetes, and other competition-related issues.

Neal represents employers and employees, as both plaintiffs and defendants, in disputes throughout Georgia and in other jurisdictions involving noncompetes, customer nonsolicits, nonrecruits, and nondisclosure covenants. Neal also handles a variety of other business-related matters, including complex commercial litigation, contract disputes, cases involving business torts, partnership or shareholder disagreements, and executive compensation disputes.

Recognized by Super Lawyers since 2012 and Best Lawyers since 2021, Neal writes and speaks frequently on issues that arise in competition-related cases. Neal is a co-author of a chapter on Restrictive Covenant Litigation in Georgia Business Litigation, a treatise published by ALM Media, LLC. Neal has also co-authored Georgia Practice Notes on Confidentiality, Nondisclosure and Non-Solicitation Agreements for Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law.  He is the co-founder of and a regular contributor to the Georgia Noncompete & Trade Secrets blog.

Neal is the Past Chair of the Labor & Employment Committee of the Atlanta Bar Association and currently serves on the Vice-Chair of the Trade Secret Committee of the State Bar of Georgia’s Intellectual Property Section. Neal also served on the Drafting Committee on Covenants Not to Compete for the Uniform Law Commission. He also served as the co-chair of the Ethics and Professionalism Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia.

Neal graduated from Tulane University in 2003 and from Emory University School of Law in 2006.