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Addressing Insider Threats to Intellectual Property

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Want to learn more about drafting, negotiating, and understanding intellectual property and technology contracts and have 10 minutes to spare? Grab your morning coffee or afternoon tea and dig into our Tech Contract Quick...more

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[Webinar] Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants: Practical Advice to Safeguard Your Company’s Critical Assets - April 10th,...

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The protection of trade secrets and confidential information is critical to the success of many organizations. Employers must remain vigilant against the growing risk of sensitive information being compromised, especially...more

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[Webinar] Managing Post Pandemic Remote Work - Top Ten Things CA Employers Need to Know - January 18th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST

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As we hopefully continue to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some things we hope to leave behind, but other, formerly “temporary” aspects of the pandemic appear to be taking more permanent root. Chief among these...more

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7 Steps to Address Privacy Concerns Arising with the Remote “Invisible Workforce”

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As remote work continues, employers have begun to characterize remote workers as the “invisible workforce” – because remote workers are not able to be seen or monitored in the same way as those performing in-person work. The...more

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Trade Secret Protection With A Remote Workforce: 7 Practical Considerations for Employers

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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

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Protecting Your Most Valuable Assets: How to Identify and Maintain Your Institution’s Trade Secrets

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An institution’s trade secrets generally include confidential information with commercial value. Trade secret protection may be available by common law, under state laws, or under federal law. In addition, there may be both...more

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Co-Working Spaces: Mitigating Litigation Risks While Encouraging Innovation

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Co-working spaces are quickly becoming the Uber equivalent to office space rentals for remote-work professionals. On Monday morning, log onto an app and reserve a cubicle space down the street at a price much cheaper than a...more

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Employment Handbooks and Confidentiality

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Employers frequently ask if they can maintain rules requiring employees to keep the contents of their employment handbooks confidential. In a recent memorandum, the General Counsel (GC) (Division of Advice) of the National...more

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12 Days of HR: All I Want For Christmas Is . . . A Side Hustle?

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In recent years, “side hustles” have become an increasingly common phenomenon among employees in all industries to supplement income from a “traditional” job. A key attribute of side hustles is that they are self-managed, and...more

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An Employer’s Spooky Interpretation of its Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy

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Mark Eting is one of Duncey’s Caps top outside sales agents. Because the company is based in Texas, but Mark lives in Cleveland and sells for the company in the northeast, Mark purchased a personal computer and a laptop to...more

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NLRB Handbook Rules Change Like the Wind Post-Boeing

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On June 6, 2018, the Office of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“the NLRB” or “the Board”) published its most recent memo concerning employer handbook policies. The memo’s guidance reflects a stark...more

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Are You Doing Enough to Protect Your Company's Secrets?

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A decade ago, I litigated a trade secret/unfair competition dispute between two large plastics manufacturers. The Plaintiff was based in southwest Florida, the Defendant in southern Alabama. The factual dispute is...more

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