Please join Seyfarth at the 2021 AIPLA Trade Secret Summit, which is being held November 8-9, 2021 at the headquarters of SolarWinds in Austin, Texas.

Boston Partner Erik Weibust is Chair of the AIPLA Trade Secret Committee and he will be offering welcoming remarks and moderating a panel entitled “Expert Advice: Practical tips for working with experts in a trade
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The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will host its annual Trade Secret Law Summit at The Orrick Building in San Francisco’s Financial District on March 16-17, 2020.

Seyfarth partner Scott Humphrey will be speaking on a panel entitled “Use of Litigation Funding in Trade Secret Cases” with representatives of two major litigation funders. Other Seyfarth attendees will include Erik
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The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will host its annual Trade Secret Law Summit at the American Express Company in New York City’s Financial District on March 21-22, 2019.

Seyfarth is a proud sponsor of the Summit, at which partners Erik Weibust (Vice Chair of AIPLA’s Trade Secret Law Committee) will be speaking on Protection of Trade Secrets in
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aiplaSeyfarth attorneys Erik Weibust and Eric Barton will be presenting on trade secret and noncompete legislative updates at the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s 2017 Trade Secret Summit, being held on March 2-3, 2017 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  The theme of the Summit is “Emerging Standards During Tumultuous Times,” and it will include panels of leading practitioners and
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On December 4th and 5th, nearly 100 trade secret, non-compete, and economic espionage practitioners convened at the Intel Global Headquarters in Santa Clara, California for the annual American Intellectual Property Law Association Trade Secret Law Summit.  Two Seyfarth attorneys, Erik Weibust and Daniel Hart, presented a paper co-authored with Andrew Masak and Robyn Marsh, titled “Lawyer Mobility and Trade Secrets
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At some point in his or her legal education, every law student discovers one of the more strikingly unique rules about the profession that he or she aspires to enter.  Unlike laws governing physicians, accountants, engineers, and virtually all other professions, rules governing the practice of law impose a nearly absolute prohibition on lawyer non-compete agreements.  At the same time,
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