Can an Employee Take Your Company’s Trade Secrets to a Competing Business?

By Amanda Rydza | Published May 17, 2017 | Posted in Employment Issues, Employment Law, NDA, Risk Management, Trade Secrets | Tagged Tags: Anthony Levandowski, trade secret act, Trade Secrets, Uber, Waymo | Comments Off on Can an Employee Take Your Company’s Trade Secrets to a Competing Business?

On February 23, 2017, Waymo, LLC (owned by Google’s parent company), filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies, Inc., Ottomotto LLC, and Otto Trucking, LLC. The basis of Waymo’s lawsuit is for violation of the defense of trade secret act. The three main questions raised by this lawsuit are: 1) Can an employee take a company’s Read More

Risk Management: Protect Yourself from Product Liability Lawsuits

By Melinda Garcia | Published August 9, 2016 | Posted in Business, Product Liability Lawsuits, Risk Management | Tagged Tags: Business, Product Liability Lawsuits, Risk Management | Leave a comment

In 1998, Dow Corning was sued for $4.2 billion by 170,000 customers claiming that their silicone breast implants ruptured, causing bodily harm, scleroderma, or death. Because of the outstanding number of cases against the company, Dow Corning settled for $3.2 billion (CNN Money). In December of 1998, Owens Corning Corp. had approximately 176,000 product liability Read More

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