Protecting Business Secrets and Key Personnel: How Far Can Companies Go?
October 27, 201012:00 pm
American Bar Association Teleconference
Presented by the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section’s Business Torts & Civil RICO Committee & the Litigation Section’s Business Torts Committee
Moderator: Melvin A. Schwarz, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Panelists: Eric D. Welsh, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, and Veronica Smith Lewis, Vinson & Elkins LLP
This teleconference will examine the methods companies utilize to protect proprietary information and key personnel and discuss the business torts and antitrust risks stemming from such protection.
Discussion will include Antitrust Division’s recent enforcement action in this area, and recent examples of efforts by companies to enjoin former employees from assuming similar positions with competitors on theory of threatened misappropriation or inevitable disclosure.
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Following the program, recordings will be posted on the Section website, and downloadable in an MP3 format. Please visit this link after the program date to listen and/or download the audio.
