The most significant trade secret reform in decades has become law. The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) modernized and strengthened trade secret law and address a number of issues that trade secret owners commonly encountered under current laws. Because trade secrets are a fundamental building block of California’s and the U.S. economy that help drive investment, innovation and economic growth, trade secret litigation and employee mobility cases are the hottest areas of intellectual property and employment litigation. Employees are getting laid off in record numbers, more and more senior level executives and employees are leaving one company to start or join a direct competitor. This program will provide participants with advice on how to protect company trade secrets, guard against employee raids, recruit from competitors without getting sued, and deal with the important issues that arise when employees leave to compete with their former employers. This program, chaired by Miriam Kim of Munger, Tolles & Olson and works through a Trade Secret case from beginning to end.
| Agenda | |
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Opening remarks and program overview with discussion of fact pattern |
| 9:10-9:55 | Forensic Investigation/Strategies for Lawfully On-Boarding A Competitor's Employees Catherine Lui, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Mark Conrad, Conrad & Metlitzky |
| 9:55- 11:00 | Litigation Strategy - Developing the Litigation Objectives(Definition of Winning, and Identifying Early Inflection Points for Settling or Securing a Win) Preparation and Filing of Lawsuit: What Claims to Plead, Or Omit, and Why (Includes discussion of Bus. & Prof. Code 16600, the current state of employee and customer non-solicitation agreements, the validity of the "necessary to protect trade secrets" exception to the prohibition against non-compete agreements, DTSA v. CUTSA, and more.) Miriam Kim, Munger, Tolles & Olson Elizabeth McBride, Applied Materials |
| 11:10 - 12:15 | To TRO or Not to TRO -- What are the Questions? Karen Reinhold, Hopkins Carley Adrian Sawyer, Kerr & Wagstaffe |
| Lunch - On your own | |
| 1:15 - 2:15 | How to Efficiently Prepare a Code-Compliant 2019.210 Identification/5 Strategic Ways to Challenge a 2019.210 Identification Michelle Ybarra, Keker Van Nest & Peters |
| 2:15 - 3:00 | Specific Discovery Strategies for Trade Secret Cases Michael Ng, Kobre & Kim Maxwell Pritt, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP |
| 3:10 - 4:15 | Preparing Jury Instructions, Special Verdict Forms and Selecting A Jury A. Marisa Chun, McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
| Program Concludes | |
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Faculty Miriam Kim, Munger, Tolles & Olson |
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This program has been approved for 5.0 hrs of MCLE for California attorneys. Bridgeport is a State Bar of CA provider of MCLE (Provider 11872).
| Event Date | 05-04-2018 9:00 am |
| Event End Date | 05-04-2018 4:15 pm |
| Individual Price | $265.00 |
| Location | Hyatt Regency San Francisco |
| Categories | Live Programs |
| #Registrants | Rate/Person ($) |
|---|---|
| 3 | 175.00 |
| 2 | 225.00 |