Background
Late on a Friday night we were contacted by the chief legal counsel of a Fortune 100 company where a new high-level executive they had recently hired was accused of misappropriating his previous employer's intellectual property. A lawsuit was filed in another state by his previous employer [which happened to be another Fortune 100 company] seeking an injunction on all activities of the firm involving the division the executive led. The client stated that court documents were alleging that, before his departure, the executive had copied the plaintiff's trade secrets to an external drive and had emailed close to 100 critical documents to his personal Yahoo! email account. Based upon our previous experience with this client, we knew ...
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