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Employees often have access to the proprietary information, trade secrets, and other confidential data of the employer. The disclosure or competitive use of such information can gut an employer's competitive advantage, and such conduct increasingly has become the subject of courtroom battles and settlement negotiations. This 2022 edition of Trade Secrets: A State-by-State Survey is designed to help labor and employment law attorneys, as well as intellectual property lawyers, in counseling on and litigating issues of trade secret protection.

For each state, he text of the relevant civil and criminal statutes; a detailed review of case law examining the definitional and other issues critical to trade secret litigation in each state; in-depth guidance on exemption from disclosure under state and federal Freedom of Information Acts and on the issuance of protective orders in the litigation context; and explanation of the policy considerations underlying case and statutory law developments. Just as importantly, the specific types of evidence that have secured--or doomed--protection for asserted trade secrets. The inclusion of finding lists makes it easy for practitioners to immediately determine what particular types of information in any given state have been afforde--and denied--trade secret protection.

Trade Secrets contains detailed guidance on obtaining injunctive relief, damages, and attorneys fees; discusses the interplay of law protecting information not quite rising to the level of a trade secret; and provides references to state-specific law review articles and other scholarly resources in this area.

By using this treatise, the reader can answer clients questions in the counseling context in just minutes and at only a fraction of the cost that otherwise might have been incurred. It is designed to be just as valuable in the litigation context, where it quickly brings the litigator up to speed on a host of critical issues.