Overview
Throughout the course of doing business, companies face various legal disputes on a regular basis. Regardless of the size of a company or its industry, it’s critical for the company to properly safeguard itself from wrongdoing in its business relationships and protect its trade secrets, proprietary information, and intellectual property rights.
Epstein Becker Green’s business torts, competition, and trade secret litigation lawyers represent clients both inside and outside the courtroom. With comprehensive insight, diligent preparation, and vast experience, we are adept at developing tailored strategies to help clients achieve their objectives—and protect their bottom line.
Representing Clients in a Broad Range of Disputes
Businesses can suffer significant financial loss due to the misconduct, unfair dealings, or dishonesty of another. Business torts can cause substantial economic harm, and they can also result in lost opportunities and reputational damage. Representing clients across a wide spectrum of industries, our litigation attorneys skillfully handle a broad range of sophisticated disputes, including the following:
- Breach of contract
- Breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Business asset dispositions
- Defamation
- Disclosure of trade secrets
- Employee disloyalty
- Fraud and misrepresentation
- Infringement of intellectual property rights
- Tortious interference with contractual and business relations
- Trade disparagement
- Trade secret misappropriation
- Unfair business practices
- Unfair competition
Litigation concerning business torts, compensation, or trade secrets is often intricate and multifaceted, involving several parties and complex legal issues. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, we are committed to mitigating risk, minimizing costs, and maximizing results.
Protecting Your Business and Safeguarding Your Assets
Clients appreciate that we know their business and build a productive working relationship for future success in their matters. With decades of experience representing clients in the financial, health care, hospitality, retail, technology, and telecommunications fields, among many others, we understand the nature of business torts, compensation, and trade secret disputes in diverse industries—and the impact it can have on a client’s daily operations.
Our lawyers have the acumen necessary to evaluate the best course of action based on a client’s specific needs. We are also equipped with the knowledge to recommend the best approach to take in a client’s matter when the stakes are highest. Whether the remedy sought is a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction to protect a client’s proprietary information, or monetary damages or other relief, we provide responsive counsel and seek swift resolutions to avoid further harm to the client’s business.
Effective Solutions and High-Quality Results
The facts and circumstances of each case are different, and every business has unique goals. As capable negotiators and aggressive litigators, we strive to secure the most effective solution in a client’s business tort, competition, or trade secret case with as little disruption to the client’s operations as possible. Whether a case should be brought to trial or settled outside of court, we work within the scope of a client’s resources to reach a successful outcome. Litigation may not always be the optimal course of action to pursue—in some cases, a client’s financial and legal interests may be best served by considering other options. Our lawyers also offer effective advocacy when a case should be resolved through mediation, arbitration, or another form of alternative dispute resolution.
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- September 7-10, 2023
- January 27, 2023
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- Media CoverageErik Weibust Quoted in “Noncompete Rule Challenge Gets More Backing”3 minute read
- Media CoveragePete Steinmeyer Quoted in “What Employers Need to Know About the FTC Noncompete Ban”2 minute read
- Media CoverageLaw360’s Hottest Firms and Stories Features Epstein Becker Green Insight on the Federal Trade Commission's Noncompete ...1 minute read
- Media CoveragePete Steinmeyer Quoted In “The Truth About the New Non-Compete Ban for Banks & Hedge Funds”3 minute read
- Media CoverageKate Rigby, Dan Fahey Quoted in “Why the FTC’s Noncompete Rule Will Make Chicago Hospitals Look Over Their Shoulders” ...3 minute read
- Media CoverageErik Weibust Quoted in “Battles Over Noncompete Clauses Poised to Heat Up in Statehouses”3 minute read
- PublicationsThe FTC's Noncompete Rule Is Likely Dead on Arrival2 minute read
- Media CoverageErik Weibust Quoted in “US FTC Votes Through Non-Compete Clause Ban Spelling Uncertainty for Trade Secret Strategy” ...2 minute read
- BlogsThe FTC Finally Pulls the Trigger on a Final Noncompete Rule, with a Few Changes, but Remains Unlikely to Ever Hit Its Target ...7 minute read
- Media CoverageErik Weibust Quoted in “Takeaways from the FTC's Noncompetes Ban”2 minute read
- Media CoveragePeter Steinmeyer Quoted in “New Ban on Noncompetes Could Have Big Impact on Health Care”4 minute read
- Media CoveragePeter Steinmeyer Quoted in “Businesses Face ‘Seismic Shift’ After FTC Bans Noncompetes. Here’s What They Should Do ...2 minute read
- Media CoveragePeter Steinmeyer Quoted in “For Traders, the FTC Ban on Non-Competes Comes with Big Catches”2 minute read
- Blogs
“They Said What?! I’ll Sue!” – Litigating Defamatory Claims – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
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Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Elected to Law360’s 2024 Editorial Advisory Boards
3 minute read - Media CoveragePeter Steinmeyer Quoted in “Tully Rinckey's Atty Contracts Offer Warning to Other Firms”2 minute read
- Media CoverageErik Weibust Quoted in “The FTC Is Poised to Ban Noncompetes. Here’s What Experts Say Could Happen Next.” ...3 minute read
- BlogsFree to Forfeit: Delaware High Court Holds Employee Choice Is Proper Lens for Evaluating Forfeiture-for-Competition ...6 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Five Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Named to the 2024 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
3 minute read - PublicationsTrade Secrets Litigation—2024 Update2 minute read
- PublicationsPreparing for Non-Compete Litigation—2024 Update2 minute read
- PublicationsNoncompete Report Misinterpreted Critique of FTC Proposal4 minute read
- Media CoverageKimberly Carter Featured in “People on the Move”1 minute read
- Media Coverage
Featured in Los Angeles Sentinel: Attorney Kimberly Carter Joins Epstein Becker Green Law Firm
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Featured in Law360: Employment Attorney Kim Carter Joins Epstein Becker Green
2 minute read - Media CoverageKim Carter Featured in “Wake Up Call: Laterals, Moves, In-House”1 minute read
- Media CoverageKim Carter Featured in “Epstein Becker Green Adds Employment Attorney as Member in LA”1 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Bolsters West Coast Presence with Employment Attorney Kimberly Carter3 minute read
- BlogsNew York Governor: “Balance” Is Needed on Noncompete Bill2 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Six Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Named to the 2023 Mid-South Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
10 minute read - BlogsDOJ Seeks to Dismiss Its Last Pending No-Poach Criminal Action3 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Announces 2024 Promotions6 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green’s Pete Steinmeyer Honored in Crain’s 2023 Notable Leaders in Employment & Labor Law
1 minute read - PublicationsAn “Overbroad” Noncompete: The National Labor Relations Board Has Found Its First Target2 minute read
- PublicationsWhat Do Cancelling Student Loan Debt and Banning Noncompetes Have in Common?2 minute read
- PublicationsNon-Compete Laws: Illinois – Q&A Guide for Employers, 2023 Update2 minute read
- BlogsBusiness Enterprise Value as a Measure of Damages for Business Torts5 minute read
- BlogsSpilling Secrets Podcast: Attention Employers – How to Protect Trade Secrets in California3 minute read
- Media CoverageErik Weibust Provides Substantive Guidance on Restrictive Covenants and Their Enforcement2 minute read
- Media CoverageAndrew Lichtenstein Featured in “On the Move”1 minute read
- Media CoverageAndrew Lichtenstein Featured in “Epstein Becker Picks Up Ex-O'Melveny Atty in LA”2 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Continues West Coast Expansion with Employment Attorney Andrew Lichtenstein in Los Angeles ...2 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green’s Jeremy Oliver Selected as a 2023 “Best of the Bar” Honoree2 minute read
- PublicationsNovel NLRB Action Highlights Aggressive Noncompete Stance2 minute read
- Media CoverageNancy Gunzenhauser Popper, Erik Weibust, Carter DeLorme, Kevin Sullivan Discuss “The Labor Laws Employers Need to Pay ...15 minute read
- PublicationsLights, Camera … Trade Secrets Action2 minute read
- Media Coverage
Peter Steinmeyer, Erik Weibust Quoted in “SHRM Objects to Banning Noncompete Agreements”
4 minute read - Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Welcomes Labor & Employment Trial Lawyer J.T. Wilson III in Chicago3 minute read
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Epstein Becker Green Insight on the Resignation of FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson Featured in Lexblog: “Noteworthy ...
2 minute read - Media CoverageLaw360’s Hottest Firms and Stories Features Epstein Becker Green Insight on FTC’s Noncompetes Proposal2 minute read