In the current hyper-competitive marketplace, protecting a company’s trade secrets and other proprietary business information is essential. Loss of key confidential data or other assets through employee theft, cyber threats, misappropriation, corporate espionage, or other forms of unfair competition can leave a once stable and thriving company in crisis. As information and employees become increasingly fluid in the modern economy, companies must have a holistic strategy to address these issues.
In the current hyper-competitive marketplace, protecting a company’s trade secrets and other proprietary business information is essential. Loss of key confidential data or other assets through employee theft, cyber threats, misappropriation, corporate espionage, or other forms of unfair competition can leave a once stable and thriving company in crisis. As information and employees become increasingly fluid in the modern economy, companies must have a holistic strategy to address these issues.
Williams Mullen’s Trade Secrets, Employee Mobility and Restrictive Covenants Practice brings together a team of labor & employment, intellectual property, and litigation attorneys to help clients develop and implement best practices and defend against threats. We routinely advise clients on the protection of their confidential and proprietary information, providing program and policy development to help ensure that their intellectual property and other assets are secure. Our attorneys have extensive experience preparing and enforcing confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-competition, trade secret and other restrictive agreements and policies to mitigate risks associated with employee mobility.
While our goal is to prevent and avoid disputes, if there is a breach, our litigators have counseled clients in pre-litigation negotiations and fought for their rights through trial, pursuing and defending claims for injunctive relief, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and related state claims, tortious interference with contract or business expectancy, computer fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and breaches of non-compete or other restrictive covenants.
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08.18.2022
123 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in 2023 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
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08.23.2021
124 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in 2022 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
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06.09.2021
Laura Windsor Named to 2021 Class of ‘Influential Women of Law’ by Virginia Lawyers Weekly
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08.20.2020
116 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©; Most Total Lawyers in Virginia
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08.15.2019
119 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
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05.03.2019
Williams Mullen Expands Intellectual Property Section with Ed White and Janet Cho
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04.10.2019
6 Williams Mullen Attorneys Ranked on 2019 Top Lists by Virginia Super Lawyers
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02.05.2019
11 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers List; Keith Kapp and Elizabeth Scott Named to Top Lists
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08.15.2018
110 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in Latest Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
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08.14.2017
114 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2018
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01.19.2017
Williams Mullen Attracts Seasoned Attorney Michael Maloney to Expanding Government Contracts Practice
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08.15.2016
100 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2017 Best Lawyers in America
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03.22.2016
Supreme Court Upholds North Carolina’s Blue Pencil Doctrine Impacting Non-Competes
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08.17.2015
106 Williams Mullen Attorneys named 2016 Best Lawyers in America
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08.18.2014
100 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2015 Best Lawyers in America
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D. Earl Baggett
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George H. Bowles
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David C. Burton
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Janet W. Cho
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Michael D. Maloney
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Robert Van Arnam
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Edward T. White
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