Russell Beck will be speaking on a panel covering Trade Secret Protection Best Practices: Hiring Competitors’ Employees and Protecting the Company When Competitors Hire Yours. The event is sponsored by the American Bar 
Association and will be held on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, from 1:00 PM EDT to 2:30 PM. More information is available here.
The other panelists are Pamela Passman, President and CEO of CREATe.org, and John Marsh, a partner at Hahn Loeser. The panel will be moderated by Robert Milligan of Seyfarth Shaw.
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Russell Beck’s work in this area is well recognized; it includes:
- Over twenty years of working on trade secret, noncompete, and unfair competition matters
- Authoring the book Negotiating, Drafting, and Enforcing Noncompetition Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants (5th ed., MCLE, Inc. 2015), used by other lawyers to help them with their noncompete cases
- Authoring the chapters Trade Secret Misappropriation andNoncompetition Agreements for Intellectual Property Practice (MCLE, Inc. 2004-2016) (covering trade secrets law nationally and Massachusetts noncompete law)
- Drafting and advising on various bills pending before the Massachusetts Legislature to define, codify, and improve noncompetition law
- Teaching Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants at Boston University School of Law
- Founding and administrating the award-winning blog, Fair Competition Law
- Establishing and administrating the Noncompete Lawyers and Trade Secret Protection groups on LinkedIn, with over 2,000 members around the world
- Founded and chaired the Trade Secret / Noncompete Practice for an AmLaw 100 firm
In addition, Russell has been repeatedly honored for his work in this area of law in the Chambers USA Guide, which explained that “Russell Beck of Beck Reed Riden LLP specializes in noncompete litigation and is a trade secrets expert. He comes highly recommended by his peers for his nationwide practice in this niche. ‘He’s fantastic,’ sources say.”
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