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    Non-Compete & Trade Secrets

    Our nationwide, cross-practice team is well-equipped to help you safeguard your valued employees, innovative products, and key customer and vendor relationships.

    Overview

    Trade secrets can provide businesses with a powerful advantage, as they are no longer exclusively located in a vault or on a balance sheet—but in the cloud, on remote hard drives and international servers, and often in employees’ heads. Our team is comprised of labor and employment, commercial, data privacy, and IP attorneys who understand that trade secrets and proprietary information are more than “IP issues” or “employment matters.” We know the law, including the varied approaches states take with respect to enforcement of confidentiality, non-compete and non-solicit agreements, the Defend Trade Secrets Act, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

    Representative Experience

    • CVS Caremark: Represented the retail and healthcare company in a non-compete dispute involving a former executive who joined Amazon’s mail-order drug unit. We successfully secured a preliminary injunction blocking the former executive from working for Amazon’s Pillpack.
    • VeriFone: Defended the electronic payment transactions company in an action alleging misappropriation of trade secrets involving pay-at-table software solutions for real-time communication via Wi-Fi networks for credit card terminals and point-of-sale systems. The case settled.
    • W.B. Mason: Defended the business products company and its employees in numerous federal lawsuits filed by one of the largest suppliers of office products and services, alleging breach of non-compete agreements and misappropriation of trade secret and confidential information.

    Our Team

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    • Matthew T. McLaughlin

      Partner / Co-Leader, Non-Compete & Trade Secrets
      • Boston
      • Office:617.345.6154
      • mmclaughlin@nixonpeabody.com
      Matthew T. McLaughlin
    • Laura B. Bacon

      Partner / Co-Leader, Non-Compete & Trade Secrets
      • Chicago
      • Office:312.977.4403
      • lbbacon@nixonpeabody.com
      Laura B. Bacon
    • Robert A. Weikert

      Partner
      Office Managing Partner, San Francisco
      • San Francisco
      • Office:415.984.8385
      • rweikert@nixonpeabody.com
      Robert A. Weikert
    • Brian V. Alcala

      Partner
      • Chicago
      • Office:312.977.4366
      • bvalcala@nixonpeabody.com
      Brian V. Alcala
    • Richard H. Tilghman IV

      Partner
      • Chicago
      • Office:312.977.4881
      • rhtilghman@nixonpeabody.com
      Richard H. Tilghman IV
    • Seth L. Neulight

      Partner
      • San Francisco
      • Office:415.984.8377
      • sneulight@nixonpeabody.com
      Seth L. Neulight
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    Insights And Happenings

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      FTC proposes nationwide ban on non-competes

      Jan 5, 2023
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      Former senior DOJ official expands Nixon Peabody’s Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense practice on the West Coast

      Jan 3, 2023
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      Feb 9, 2022

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