When employees resign to join a competitor, care should be taken to avoid common mistakes that may give rise to litigation. Here are some things to keep in mind.

When an employee resigns to join a competitor, it is important to respond promptly. Odds are that the employee has been orchestrating his or her departure for weeks or months. The security of your trade secrets and/or customer relationships may have already been compromised. It is important to act quickly. Here are some things to keep in mind.

This post discusses how to protect your company’s trade secrets so that in the event of employee misappropriation, you will be in the best possible position to succeed in litigation. This post provides guidance on how to implement a proactive corporate program to protect trade secrets from improper and unauthorized access or disclosure, and discusses the forensic steps you can take to catch an employee stealing your company’s trade secrets.

Courts around the country have held that plaintiffs allegeing trade secret misappropriation must identify the secrets at issue with specificity. So what is a plaintiff to do if it wishes to minimize disclosure of its trade secrets during litigation while maximizing its ability to discover what informatio may have been taken by the defendants?

Good mergers can turn bad without attention to employee retention -- be sure to carefully analyze the existence and enforcability of non-competes signed by key employees early in the process.