05/14: Trade Secrets

Trade Secrets

• Why Lawyers Working to Protect Trade Secrets Need to be Thinking About Patent Law, Other IP Regimes, and Common Law Torts to Gain Full Value From Their Information - Victoria Cundiff, Paul Hastings, LLP, New York, NY
• What You Need to Know to Defend Your Client Accused of Trade Secret Theft - Mark Whitaker, Morrison Foerster, Washington, DC
• Balancing Privacy and Protection: Practical Tips for Monitoring Employees and Investigating Potential Trade Secret Misappropriation - Gabriel M. Ramsey, Crowell & Moring, LLP, San Francisco, CA
  

Speakers

• Weinrich, Neal

  Berman Fink Van Horn, PC | Shareholder

  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.
• Ramsey, Gabriel

  Crowell & Moring LLP | Partner

  Gabriel M. Ramsey is a partner in the San Francisco office of Crowell & Moring. Gabe is a member of the Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Privacy & Cybersecurity groups. He is also a member of the firm's Litigation Group Steering Committee.
• Cundiff, Victoria A

  Paul Hasting LLP | Partner

  Victoria A. Cundiff is a partner at Paul Hastings resident in New York, where she is a leader of the Firm’s nationally ranked global trade secrets litigation practice. She works with clients in industries including technology, software, media, financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and sales and distribution organizations. She has tried trade secrets and related commercial and intellectual property disputes throughout the United States and before a variety of arbitration and mediation tribunals.
• Whitaker, Mark

  Morrison & Foerster | Partner

  Mark Whitaker is the co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice group, with more than 30 years of experience crafting legal strategies in high-stakes patent and trade secret litigation.