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Chicago Partner Matt Prewitt will serve as a panelist at the Trade Secret Strategy Summit: New York, hosted by CenterForce, on June 3, 2026, in New York.
Chicago Partner Matthew Prewitt will participate in the 8th Annual Trade Secrets, Non‑Competes and Other Competitive Restrictions—Hot Topics and Latest Developments program on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Chicago.
Join attorneys Linda Jackson, Douglas Grimm, Jeff Weston, and Pat Naples as they address recent developments affecting the use of noncompete agreements in the health care industry.
The plaintiff, NEXT Payment Solutions, Inc., designs and develops customer service software. The defendant, CLEAResult Consulting, Inc., provides North American utilities with energy efficiency programs and services for utility customers, including the opportunity to schedule in-home appointments for services like home energy-efficiency assessments.
ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce that five practice areas and 12 attorneys were recognized by Chambers Global 2026, including in the guide’s newly minted Global Market Leaders category.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a workshop on January 27, entitled, “Moving Forward: Protecting Workers from Anticompetitive Noncompete Agreements.”
A magistrate judge of the US District Court for the District of Delaware issued a report and recommendation recommending the denial of the defendants’ Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss SambaSafety’s Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) claim arising from alleged misappropriation of driver compliance software and related data systems.
ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce the election of 18 new partners, effective January 1, 2026.
The Fourth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a trade secret misappropriation claim under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) where the district court concluded that a company did not plausibly allege that it took reasonable measures to protect the secrecy of proprietary software.
Montway LLC is an Illinois-based leading automotive-transport broker that assists customers with transporting their vehicles across the country to alleviate them of the burden of driving those vehicles themselves.
The plaintiff, BDO USA, P.C. is an accounting and professional services advisory firm. The defendants are Ankura Consulting Group, LLC, Ankura’s CEO Kevin Lavin, and Phuoc Vin Phan.
The Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act (MNAA) took effect in October 2018, imposing certain statutory requirements for noncompete provisions to be enforceable. When the statute became law, many eagerly awaited case law guidance on how to interpret some of the murkier requirements.
The plaintiff National Recovery Agency Group, LLC (NRA) is a debt-collection firm that maintains large volumes of personally identifiable information (PII) of individual debtors.
On August 12, the Ninth Circuit in Quintara Biosciences, Inc. v. Ruifeng Biztech, Inc. held that the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) does not require a plaintiff to identify its allegedly misappropriated trade secrets with particularity at the pleading stage because that is a question of fact meant for summary judgment or trial.
Wu-Tang Clan produced a single physical copy of the album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” which was never publicly released. In 2015, Martin Shkreli purchased the album.
The plaintiff, John Snyder, worked for a life insurance company from December 2006 to August 2016.
Dr. David Spiegel, a Yale University professor, developed a new approach to targeted protein degradation using MODA technology (bi-functional synthetic molecules for degrading extracellular proteins).
Protecting trade secrets in the beverage and food industry requires planning and forethought from the outset of product development. Attempting after the fact to plug the holes in the company’s safeguards can be the path to a very expensive failure. A recent case from Wisconsin provides a vivid example of what can go wrong.
ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce that 132 attorneys have been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America 2026, with two attorneys highlighted as “Lawyers of the Year” and 66 attorneys listed as “Ones to Watch.”
The court held that the statute of limitations began to run from the date when a former employee produced confidential company financial during discovery in an unrelated matter, and not from the earlier date when the former employee had copied and taken the files, because defendants had not failed to exercise reasonable diligence to uncover the alleged misappropriation.
This case is an important reminder that in trade secrets litigation, the specific business context is critically important and may be outcome determinative. Here, a closely held business was held to a much more lenient standard than most courts would have applied to a larger company
On July 1, the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act took effect, positioning Florida as one of, if not the most, employer-friendly states in noncompete and garden leave agreement enforcement.
ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce the head of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Group, Craig Gelfound, has been recognized as a leader in his field by Chambers USA and IP Stars.
ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce that 21 practices and 84 attorneys have been recognized by The Legal 500 United States 2025 guide, including three Tier 1 rankings for (1) Chicago Elite – Corporate and M&A Leading Law Firms, (2) Intellectual Property – Patents: Prosecution (Including Re–Examination and Post–Grant Proceedings), and (3) Finance – Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Municipal.