News & Analysis as of

Confidentiality Agreements Risk Management

Clark Hill PLC

10 Compelling Reasons for Employment Arbitration: Part 1

Clark Hill PLC on

There may be no single, more efficient step an employer can take to manage litigation risk from its workforce than a properly administered mandatory employee arbitration program. An employee arbitration program is a powerful...more

Conn Maciel Carey LLP

Best Practices to Safeguard Your Company’s Trade Secrets — Case Study

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on

The number one risk for trade secrets exfiltration is from insider threats—employees, contractors, or even executives with access to sensitive information who either intentionally or accidentally compromise it. Sometimes it’s...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Preventing Trade Secret Theft: Proactive Strategies for In-House Counsel

Ward and Smith, P.A. on

Ed. Note: This is the last in a series of articles taken from Gavin Parsons' CLE presentation for the North Carolina Bar Association's Antitrust and Complex Business Dispute CLE Program presented on Thursday, January 30,...more

Potomac Law Group, PLLC

Three Tips for Your Company's Form Agreements

What’s missing from your company’s form agreements? Using form agreements allows companies to achieve efficiencies, consistency, and preferred contract language, but reliance on the standard terms that have become routine in...more

Mayer Brown

Employment Investigations Checklist

Mayer Brown on

In recent years, internal investigations into employee complaints and employee conduct have been on the rise across a variety of industry sectors. Employment (or workplace) investigations can take many forms, and can be...more

JAMS

Dispute Resolution in the AI Age

JAMS on

Contractors, design professionals and others in the construction industry are using AI tools in their work more frequently. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more widely used in all areas of business and in day-to-day...more

Offit Kurman

Five Things to Take into Consideration When Negotiating and Settling a Case

Offit Kurman on

Settling a case is hard. Negotiating the terms and coming to an agreement can take weeks or months. But once the parties agree to the general terms of a settlement (e.g., the amount of money changing hands and the timing of...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Freedom to Compete, But at a Cost: Delaware Signals Forfeiture Clauses Could Be a Viable Non-Compete Alternative

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

The Delaware Supreme Court recently clarified that forfeiture-for-competition clauses under the Employee Choice Doctrine may be enforceable against a broader range of employees, including middle managers, not just...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Insider Threats: The Overlooked Risks of Departing Employees and Sensitive Data Theft

Jackson Lewis P.C. on

Insider threats continue to present a significant challenge for organizations of all sizes. One particularly concerning scenario involves employees who leave an organization and impermissibly take or download sensitive...more

Pillsbury - Propel

Protecting IP During Joint Development Projects: Agree on More than Non-Disclosure

Pillsbury - Propel on

As industry and markets have progressed, the technology they create has seen a commensurate increase in complexity. In practice, this results in the hyper-specialization of businesses so that they may continue to innovate at...more

Stark & Stark

[Event] RIA Compliance and Legal Strategies Conference - June 1st, Wayne, PA

Stark & Stark on

The RIA Compliance and Legal Strategies Conference is an essential event for registered investment advisors to gain a valuable understanding of current regulatory and compliance-related issues. Attendees will earn 5 CE...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Benefits of and Best Practices for Protecting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Inventions as Trade Secrets

We previously discussed which portions of an artificial intelligence/machine-learning (“AI/ML”) platform can be patented. Under what circumstances, however, is it best to keep at least a portion of the platform a trade...more

Blank Rome LLP

[Ongoing Program] Recent Developments in Corporate M&A and Commercial Restrictive Covenants - February 8th, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm ET

Blank Rome LLP on

Join Us for Protecting Trade Secrets & Gaining a Competitive Edge in the Digital Age - Sophisticated Strategies to Protect Critical Assets When Key Employees Depart & Business Relationships Break Down - The protection...more

Blank Rome LLP

[Ongoing Program] Hiring from the Competition in a High-Risk, High-Reward Labor Market - January 25th, 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm ET

Blank Rome LLP on

Join Us for Protecting Trade Secrets & Gaining a Competitive Edge in the Digital Age - Sophisticated Strategies to Protect Critical Assets When Key Employees Depart & Business Relationships Break Down - The protection...more

K&L Gates LLP

Practical Advice for Protecting Trade Secrets

K&L Gates LLP on

What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less - When people hear “intellectual property,” they often think first of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Trade secrets are a fourth type of intellectual property that are critical...more

Baker Donelson

Tips for Trusting Teleworkers with Trade Secrets

Baker Donelson on

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

Lowndes

Here’s What You Need To Know About Protecting Trade Secrets

Lowndes on

What do you do when a key employee leaves and you believe he/she has taken your company’s trade secrets to a competitor? Or when a strategic business partner uses your trade secret information to compete against you?...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Two New NLRB Decisions Allow Employers to Limit Use of Its Email System and Preserve Confidentiality of Workplace Investigations

Troutman Pepper Locke on

Q: What is the current rule on whether an employee can use our company’s email system to distribute union material? Also, are we permitted to require employees to keep workplace investigations confidential without running...more

BCLP

NDAs: The EHRC calls for employers to make important changes to their practices with settlement agreements

BCLP on

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has issued guidance on the use of confidentiality provisions in discrimination cases. The guidance, if followed in its entirety, would mean employers significantly changing the way...more

Cozen O'Connor

Protecting Your Trade Secrets: Implementing an Effective Exit Protocol

Cozen O'Connor on

We have previously posted on HR Headaches about the practical steps employers can take to protect their company’s trade secrets. ...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

How to Stop Departing Employees from Walking Off with the Company Jewels

Poyner Spruill LLP on

Problem: A key member of the design team for your start-up company's upcoming product launch has just quit in a huff over compensation. He (or she) threatens to go to your primary competitor and share everything they know...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Protecting Confidential Information and Trade Secrets When Employees Leave the Company

When employees leave a company—whether it is due to a voluntary or involuntary separation—their former employers may worry about the security of the company’s confidential information and trade secrets. This article answers...more

Cozen O'Connor

Five Tips for Protecting Your Company’s Trade Secrets

Cozen O'Connor on

Protecting your trade secrets and proprietary information is a vital part of your business. Every company needs to have policies and agreements in place to prevent employees from stealing property, and wrongfully soliciting...more

Gray Reed

How to Avoid Trumping Non-Disclosure Agreements

Gray Reed on

In the summer of 2016 Stormy Sultry aka Peggy Peterson and Dennis Duck aka David Dennison engaged in some alleged hanky-panky....more

Epstein Becker & Green

Overtime Exemptions, Predictive Scheduling, Sex Harassment, and More: Major Developments on Some Key Issues Affecting Retail...

Epstein Becker & Green on

Spring may have been slow to arrive in some parts of the country this year, but the courts, state legislatures, and government agencies have been moving full speed ahead. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a potentially...more

33 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide