Every company has competitive information it needs to protect whether it knows it or not. Polsinelli’s Restrictive Covenants & Trade Secrets Litigation group is a cross-disciplinary team comprised of attorneys from our Intellectual Property and Labor & Employment departments. Through a collaboration of their collective knowledge and experiences, these attorneys offer the full menu of protection, from drafting, enforcing and defending non-solicitation, non-compete and confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements to safeguarding complex intellectual property and trade secret systems. And these attorneys have tried cases involving misappropriation of trade secrets and violations of restrictive covenants from coast to coast.

Our services include:

• Enforcing restrictive covenants from TROs/Preliminary Injunctions through jury trial
• Defending against alleged violations of restrictive covenants from TROs/Preliminary Injunctions through jury trial
• Based upon our in-depth knowledge of applicable state law intricacies, drafting enforceable non-solicitation and non-competition clauses
• Comprehensive audits of companies’ Trade Secret and Competitive Information systems and programs
• Implementation and analysis of hiring decisions based upon Polsinelli’s “RCA 360 Program”
• Pursuing misappropriation of trade secrets from Preliminary Injunctions through trial
• Drafting Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreements based on the applicable state Uniform Trade Secrets Act provisions as well as the Defend Trade Secrets Act
• Creation of customized Trade Secret and Competitive Information Protection Programs based upon Polsinelli’s “TS 360 Program”
• Implementation of Polsinelli’s “Code Red Trade Secret Protocol” for identification of potential theft of trade secrets