August 27, 2021, 1 – 4 pm EST
With passage of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, Congress significantly expanded federal trade secret litigation. In addition, federal prosecutors have pursued a growing number of criminal trade secrecy cases. Featuring prominent trade secret scholars, treatise authors, practitioners, prosecutors, and judges, this program covers the basic principles and doctrines governing trade secret protection, distinctive case management aspects, and the criminal trade secret litigation
Program Faculty
Peter S. Menell, Koret Professor of Law; Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Faculty Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute; University of California at Berkeley School of Law
Hon. Beth Labson Freeman, District Judge, Northern District of California
David S. Almeling, Partner, O’Melveny
Victoria A. Cundiff, Partner, Paul Hastings
James Pooley, Trade Secret Attorney, Expert Witness, and ADR Neutral
Peter J. Toren, Trade Secret Attorney; Former Federal Prosecutor, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section
Elizabeth A. Rowe, Irving Cypen Professor of Law, University of Florida College of Law
Rebecca Wexler, Assistant Professor of Law Co-Director; Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; University of California at Berkeley School of Law
Background Materials