Employment > Noncompete & Trade Secrets
ERTW specializes in both litigation and counseling on matters involving noncompetition and other restrictive covenants and the misappropriation of trade secrets. ERTW’s lawyers have extensive experience in both prosecuting and defending these matters, which often involve the sudden departure of employees from one employer to a competitor. ERTW’s lawyers have had particular success in the emergency motion practice that frequently occurs at or near the beginning of this kind of dispute, and in all subsequent phases of the litigation.
ERTW’s extensive litigation experience in the area of noncompetition and trade secrets misappropriation has proven invaluable to its frequent advice to clients in drafting confidentiality or other restrictive agreements for their employees, and to the firm’s counseling of clients on the safe and effective recruitment and hiring of a competitor’s employees.
ERTW’s lawyers write and speak regularly in the area of noncompetes and trade secrets. Among other things, several ERTW lawyers have worked as contributing editors to the California chapters of the following BNA publications: "Tortious Interference in the Employment Context: A State-By-State Survey," American Bar Ass'n (2004) & Cumulative Supplement (2006); "Employee Duty of Loyalty: A State-By-State Survey," American Bar Ass'n (2d ed. 2003 & 3d ed. 2004); "Covenants Not To Compete: A State-By-State Survey," American Bar Ass'n (3d ed. 2002, 4th ed. 2004, 5th ed. 2005)