A California Court of Appeal concluded that what appeared to be a standard nonsolicitation of employees provision was, in fact, an unenforceable noncompete that prevented its former employees from carrying out their chosen profession. The Court of Appeal in AMN Healthcare, Inc. v. Aya Healthcare Services,…
Yesterday, the Department of Justice, probably for the first time since 2010, commenced and settled anti-trust proceedings against employers who had reached agreements not to poach each others’ employees. In 2010, the Department of Justice commenced and settled anti-trust actions against Adobe,…
On February 23, 2017, Waymo (Google’s self-driving car subsidiary) sued Uber, under the DTSA in the Northern District of California, alleging that Waymo’s former star engineer, Anthony Levandowski, conspired with Uber to steal its trade secrets to allow Uber to make a technological leap forward…
Yesterday, President Barack Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”) into law creating a federal private cause of action for trade secret misappropriation that can be pursued in federal courts as more fully described in our April 28, 2016 post, available here.
Business owners should be aware that the federal government, for the first time in over half a century, made an important stride to protecting trade secrets in the federal courts. In an era of bi-partisan bickering, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”) has cleared congress on almost…
For over 20 years, CDF has distinguished itself as one of the top employment, labor and immigration firms in California, representing employers in single-plaintiff and class action lawsuits and advising employers on related legal compliance and risk avoidance. We cover the state, with five locations from Sacramento to San Diego.
Robin Largent has a regular presence in California state and federal courts and has been lead defense counsel and appellate counsel for large and small California employers in litigation (and arbitration) ranging from individual discrimination and harassment claims to complex wage and hour representative and class actions. She also leads the firm’s appellate practice, having substantial experience and success handling appeals, writ petitions, and amicus briefs in both state and federal court on issues such as class certification (particularly in the wage and hour arena), manageability and due process concerns associated with class action trials, exempt/non-exempt misclassification issues, meal and rest break compliance, trade secret/unfair competition matters, and the scope of federal court jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act.
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