Who Should Attend:  In-house counsel, IT professionals, HR professionals, Privacy professionals, corporate executives, risk managers, and directors.

When & Where: This program will be held at three different locations.

November 13th at Seyfarth Shaw’s San Francisco Office (lunch and registration will begin at 11:30 a.m., program will begin at noon and go until 1:30 p.m.).

November 18th at Seyfarth Shaw’s 

Continue Reading Please Join Us for an In-Person Seyfarth Shaw Briefing: Trade Secret Protection Best Practices

Significant recent developments in Illinois and other states, as well as Congress, have changed the landscape of trade secret and restrictive covenant enforcement and protection. Understanding the impact of these changes, and the tools now available to employers for trade secret and restrictive covenant enforcement and protection, will help a company safeguard its most valuable assets and maintain its competitive
Continue Reading Breakfast Briefing: Protecting Your Most Valuable Assets — Trade Secrets, IP and Your Employees

Illinois and Federal laws have evolved significantly in recent years and as a result employers now have many tools available to protect themselves. Understanding these tools, as well as the impact of legal changes in this area, is necessary if a company intends on protecting its most valuable assets (i.e. trade secrets, IP and employees).

Please join us for an
Continue Reading Chicago Breakfast Briefing: Protecting Your Most Valuable Assets – Trade Secrets, IP and Your Employees

Please join Seyfarth Shaw on October 25, 2012 in Costa Mesa, California and on November 1, 2012 at our downtown office in Los Angeles, California for an informative breakfast briefing on best practices when dealing with newly hired or departing employees and the incumbent trade secret and information protection issues.

In today’s highly mobile and competitive world, employees frequently move
Continue Reading Complimentary Breakfast Briefing Offered In Orange County and Los Angeles On Trade Secret Protection Best Practices In the Hiring and Departure of Employees

Please join Seyfarth Shaw on October 10, 2012 for an informative breakfast briefing entitled Trade Secrets, IP and Your Employees as we discuss the following topics:

•Analysis of Real-World Situations Where Former Employees Have Attempted To Loot The Company’s Employees and Confidential Information and Take Them to a Competitor

•New Options Available With Noncompetition Agreements

•Methods to Protect Confidential Information
Continue Reading Complimentary Breakfast Briefing Offered In Houston On Trade Secrets, IP and Your Employees

By Randy Bruchmiller

Employers periodically fail to sign employment agreements. This situation generally occurs when the employer obtains an employee’s signature on a form employment agreement and simply puts the document in the employee’s personnel file. In this scenario, the signature of an authorized representative of the company is never added to the document. The missing signature usually comes to
Continue Reading Can an Employer Enforce a Non-Compete Agreement That It Forgot to Sign? Perhaps Not In Texas