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Blank Rome’s employment attorneys protect clients’ most important human and intellectual capital. With theft of company secrets and customers at an all-time high, we enforce our clients’ rights against unfair competition. We understand that with technology making it easier for competitors and employees to steal data, companies must be ever more vigilant and poised to act. Our team of attorneys helps companies throughout the nation and in all industry.
What We Do
Protect Important Assets
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Advise clients about how to use non-competition and non-solicitation agreements.
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Review whether security plans are sufficient to support claims for judicial relief.
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Establish plans for reviewing whether potential employees can be hired without the risk of litigation.
Secure Business Through Litigation
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National practice securing judicial relief before competitors cause harm in the market.
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Rapidly respond when competitors take employees, customers or data.
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Extensive court experience in contract law and federal and state anti-unfair competition statutes.
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Understanding our clients’ businesses and how to protect their competitive advantages in court.
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Secure significant recoveries for clients for both their actual damages and counsel fees incurred in court proceedings.
Training to Avoid Harm
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Train clients before a loss on how to spot potential threats.
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Self analysis of contracts and systems to ensure that they protect against changes in the law and business needs.
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Internal audits to help clients avoid having to go to court.
What Makes Our Practice Different
When protecting company assets, time is of the essence. Our team of attorneys prides itself on their ability quickly to understand each client’s business and objectives, enabling us to respond swiftly to protect our clients’ threatened business interests. Should litigation be necessary, our team is skilled at maneuvering in the courtroom and through expedited procedures to obtain prompt relief in court to protect our clients against loss and threat of loss.
Representative Engagements
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Obtained a preliminary injunction against former employees to prevent the continuation of a business illicitly and clandestinely formed before leaving our client and successfully enforced agreements which resulted in our client owning all rights to the new company’s products.
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Obtained a preliminary injunction to prevent a group of employees from working and soliciting customers in violation of their agreements and subsequently obtained contempt sanctions for breach of the injunction order.
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Handled high profile jury trial involving claims of misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, violations of non-disclosure and non-compete agreements, breach of fiduciary duty, and aiding and abetting breaches of employee’s duties of loyalty and contractual obligations against former employees who left to start a competing entity.
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Enjoined former sales representative from moving customers from a three-state territory to direct competitor and secured damages for lost business.
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Enforced non-compete agreement against former executive who attempted to join a competitor in its efforts to enter a new market.
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